{"id":41404,"date":"2019-12-25T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41404"},"modified":"2019-12-25T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T14:25:11","slug":"wapo-colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-the-locations-of-hundreds-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41404","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Colleges are turning students\u2019 phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/12\/24\/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands\/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_surveillance-1215pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans\">Colleges are turning students\u2019 phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands<\/a> by Drew Harwell:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Syracuse University freshmen walk into professor Jeff Rubin\u2019s Introduction to Information Technologies class, seven small Bluetooth beacons hidden around the Grant Auditorium lecture hall connect with an app on their smartphones and boost their \u201cattendance points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And when they skip class? The SpotterEDU app sees that, too, logging their absence into a campus database that tracks them over time and can sink their grade. It also alerts Rubin, who later contacts students to ask where they\u2019ve been. His 340-person lecture has never been so full.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Colleges are turning students\u2019 phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands by Drew Harwell:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41405,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41404\/revisions\/41405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}