How Much Privacy Are Students Surrendering to Attendance-tracking App?

Concerned about Big Brother surveillance of students? Check out my latest article, published in “The Hill,” on almost 40 schools in the country using an App to track student attendance/absence (appears that the App was developed by a former asst coach at Univ of Missouri, and initially used primarily for tracking sports’ teams student attendance, which is often mandatory in order to stay on the team).

“Late last month, soon after University of Missouri-Columbia students returned to school from winter break, stories began appearing about the university’s expansion of a program to track student attendance using an app owned by Arick LLC called “SpotterEDU,” which the university previously used in its sports programs.” . . .

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