The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students “should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?”

H/T: Washington Post

the Chicago-based SpotterEDU app uses Bluetooth beacons to ping a student's smartphone once they enter a lecture hall. https://t.co/5qJOThVSjn — SnorkyJr (@SnorkyJr) December 26, 2019

#lrt the founder of SpotterEDU sounds like a real peach pic.twitter.com/KMbPUfCCG1 — Catherine (@imovermyhead) December 24, 2019

'[SpotterEDU] declined to allow The Washington Post to photograph beacons in classrooms, saying “currently students do not know what they look like.”'



They probably look about like this one from @ArubaNetworks which also builds them into their newest APs pic.twitter.com/jL9DOZ5TBs — AstrocatFreitag (@AstrocatFreitag) December 27, 2019

They didn't want them to show a beacon... But Google it and you get this image that looks just like the drawing on their own website. pic.twitter.com/eNwLLuwIqE — Travis Leonard (@tminus5) December 27, 2019

"SpotterEDU the students’ full schedules, and the system can email a professor or adviser automatically if a student skips class or walks in more than two minutes late."



They are adults. Shouldn't we treat them as such? https://t.co/cXHrsmbj1G — Linda Grabill (@lindat2957) December 26, 2019