Colleges Track Hundreds Of Thousands Of Students Using Their Phones

"Graduates will be well prepared … to embrace 24/7 government tracking and social credit systems."

An app created to track the attendance of 'less academically inclined' college athletes is under fire, after over 40 schools have begun using the technology to monitor students campus-wide, according to the Washington Post.

Syracuse professor Jeff Rubin says his lectures have never been so full

Developed by former college basketball coach Rick Carter (who is currently under a restraining order by DePaul University for allegedly threatening the athletic director and head basketball coach), the Chicago-based SpotterEDU app uses Bluetooth beacons to ping a student's smartphone once they enter a lecture hall. About the size of a deck of cards, they are installed in covert locations on walls and ceilings.

School officials give 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. The app records a full timeline of the students’ presence so advisers can see whether they left early or stepped out for a break. -Washington Post

Syracuse University IT instructor Jeff Rubin uses the app to encourage his students to attend lectures - awarding "attendance points" to those who show up. Rubin is also notified when students skip classes. 

It's not a bad cover story. But it is bullshit. He fails to mention that using the app, you give permission for the microphone and camera to be used against you. 


"They want those points," said Rubin. "They know I’m watching and acting on it. So, behaviorally, they change."

According to Rubin, his 340-student lecture has never been so full at around 90% attendance.

Double Secret Dystopia
Understandably, not everyone is thrilled with the intrusive new technology, which many argue breaches students' privacy rights on a massive scale.

"We’re adults. Do we really need to be tracked?" said sophomore Robby Pfeifer, a student at Commonwealth University in Richmond, which recently began using the campus' WiFi network to track students. "Why is this necessary? How does this benefit us? … And is it just going to keep progressing until we’re micromanaged every second of the day?"

School and company officials, on the other hand, argue that monitoring students is a powerful motivator and will encourage students to adopt habits geared towards success.
"If they know more about where students are going, they argue, they can intervene before problems arise," according to the Post.

That said, some schools have taken things further - assigning "risk scores" to students based on factors such as whether they are going to the library enough.

The dream of some administrators is a university where every student is a model student, adhering to disciplined patterns of behavior that are intimately quantified, surveilled and analyzed.
But some educators say this move toward heightened educational vigilance threatens to undermine students’ independence and prevents them from pursuing interests beyond the classroom because they feel they might be watched.

“These administrators have made a justification for surveilling a student population because it serves their interests, in terms of the scholarships that come out of their budget, the reputation of their programs, the statistics for the school,” said Kyle M. L. Jones, an Indiana University assistant professor who researches student privacy.

“What’s to say that the institution doesn’t change their eye of surveillance and start focusing on minority populations, or anyone else?” he added. Students “should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?” -Washington Post

"It embodies a very cynical view of education — that it’s something we need to enforce on students, almost against their will," said UCSD digital scholarship librarian Erin Rose Glass. "We’re reinforcing this sense of powerlessness … when we could be asking harder questions, like: Why are we creating institutions where students don’t want to show up?"

Hilariously, creators of the dystopian surveillance app have tried to make things 'more fun,' by 'gamifying students' schedules with colorful Bitmoji or digital multiday streaks.'

And watch...tell someone and they will get angry with you. No one wants to hear they are being spied on. It's kill the messenger time and every time.

May be for school officials, who Carter said can split students into groups, such as “students of color” or “out-of-state students,” for further review."

When asked why an official would want to segregate out data on students of color, Carter said many colleges already do so, looking for patterns in academic retention and performance, adding that it “can provide important data for retention. Even the first few months of recorded data on class attendance and performance can help predict how likely a group of students is to” stay enrolled.

Students’ attendance and tardiness are scored into a point system that some professors use for grading, Carter said, and schools can use the data to “take action” against truant students, such as grabbing back scholarship funds. -Washington Post

Meanwhile, another app from Austin-based start-up Degree Analytics uses WiFi check-ins to track around 1,200,000 students across 89 state universities, private colleges and other schools, according to the Post. 

Founded in 2017 by data scientist Aaron Benz, the company claims that every student can graduate with "a proper environment and perhaps a few nudges along the way."

According to Benz, his system can solve "a real lack of understanding about the student experience" by using campus WiFi data to measure and analyze 98% of students.

But the company also claims to see much more than just attendance. By logging the time a student spends in different parts of the campus, Benz said, his team has found a way to identify signs of personal anguish: A student avoiding the cafeteria might suffer from food insecurity or an eating disorder; a student skipping class might be grievously depressed. The data isn’t conclusive, Benz said, but it can “shine a light on where people can investigate, so students don’t slip through the cracks.”

To help find these students, he said, his team designed algorithms to look for patterns in a student’s “behavioral state” and automatically flag when their habits change. He calls it scaffolding — a temporary support used to build up a student, removed when they can stand on their own.

At a Silicon Valley summit in April, Benz outlined a recent real-life case: that of Student ID 106033, a depressed and “extremely isolated” student he called Sasha whom the system had flagged as “highly at-risk” because she only left her dorm to eat. “At every school, there are lots of Sashas,” he said. “And the bigger you are, the more Sashas that you have.” -Washington Post

Read the rest of the report here.

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Coming to a work place near you. You new supervisor will be a robot that will track your every movement, and pay special attention to you video-wise if you show any signs of rebellion.
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‘we could be asking harder questions, like: Why are we creating institutions where students don’t want to show up?"’And how about the most obvious question of all: Why do students need to come to your useless classes for useless degrees that won’t land them a decent job?

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You can't id a person with a wifi or bluetooth ping.  The only way this tech works to track someone is if they install an app or register their device. 
How about just not installing tracking software or refusing to register?
Seems like a fairly easy way to shut this down if students really cared.
I bet no one at these schools even complains.  They probably just think it's part of the requirements of modern society.
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 "To help find these students, he said, his team designed algorithms to look for patterns in a student’s “behavioral state” and automatically flag when their habits change."

This information will be provided to your state Department of Mental Health, so you can be assigned, tested, analyzed, treated, and re-programmed by their professionals.  You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. 

 

This is some scary shit. Analyzing our behavior for changes? What fucking business is it of theirs? Fascism is what this is...fascism.

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"Now it's illegal to speak truth"
Minute 11:30: Trump signs executive order "silencing every single debate that the young people have in these universities and is just the first step ..."
'... can't say that the Rothschilds created Israel'
'... illegal to say that the attack on the USS Liberty was a war crime, or to even blame Israel for it'
'... or that 911 was an inside job orchestrated by the Mossad and CIA'
"... it's a mess"

Minute 54:30: "Basically it's a worship of a race, it's a supremacism about the race, he made it all about the race and Trump signed it."
Minute 28:00: -Trump appointed 140 judges "with daily briefings on Talmudic law". When they speak of morality they are speaking of Noahide law, not the 10 commandments. "What is wrong with what's going on it's not putting the American people first, we are actually showing favoritism of another nation."
Minute 41:30: -"It doesn't matter if you're *** or Gentile." Not according to Talmud Jews. "They reject Jesus"
Evangelicals Unknowingly Help Promote New world Order
https://youtu.be/0y8mjq2eUxA

-In 2014 Netanyahu said the Talmud would become the basis of law for
Israel one day.
-In 1991 (same year of his NWO speech) Skull and Bones, Satanic George Bush Sr. signed the
Talmudic 7 Noahide laws into US law.
-Currently the Jewish Sanhedrin in Israel have been pushing Trump to
enforce these laws, I guess this Executive Order silencing free speech is the start.

Minute 1:00:
"Virginia’s Social Experiment"
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=4lEYCDVkng4
https://hooktube.com/watch?...
Trump says he's against globalism; "we will never enter America into
any agreement that reduces our ability to control our own affairs."
THEN EXPLAIN THIS:
-DeVos Signs on to Globalist U.N. Education Declaration
https://youtu.be/AQHedpVSpIU
Know Your Enemy Part 65 - The World Core Curriculum
https://youtu.be/7TGfaXWXh2I
"First of all, he will come to a world which is essentially one world"
(who's he? Lucifer, yep)
Know Your Enemy (Part 66 - Alice A Bailey)
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Know Your Enemy Part 67 - The War on Parents
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
So we have to 'offer up' our children to these creepy people?
Know Your Enemy Part 63 - The United Nations Background
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

AND THIS:
-USMCA trade agreement already passed by congress contain aspects of TPP and the Paris Climate accord, weakening US sovereignty, handing our law making over to foreign bureaucrats and forcing us to accept thousands of 'climate refugees'?? If the senate passes this we will be subject to international law, GUESS WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR GUN RIGHTS.

-Why are the peaceful law abiding citizens of Virginia now forming militias and being threatened by the tyrannical socialist democrats (enabled and funded by globalist elites and foreign countries) if they don't give up their gun rights? CAN YOU SEE AN 'EVENT' COMING TO THIS AREA?
IT'S WHAT THEY DO. The militias may be infiltrated or will they use FF snipers like in the Ukraine?

Major concerns with Trump if he waffles on Virginia gun rights and USMCA and allows US education to be taken over by US Talmudic infiltration. if this is where we're heading forget 2020 because it's end times folks, get right with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Revelation 2:9: I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the Synagogue of Satan.

All you Goyim might want to find out what's in the Talmud, their hate of Jesus is unreal, saying this is not anti-Semitic, just facts. Not good for Christians (nor anyone, unless your one of them) they more than hate us.

Revelation 3:9 Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan ...
https://biblehub.com/revela...

Amazon buys RING, creates massive spy surveillance of homes, whistle blowers report

Authored by Eta Onrish via The Organic Prepper blog,
Big Tech has come under fire quite consistently for privacy concerns and has even faced big fines for violations (which they can afford). It seems that public attention on this matter has forced them to start going underground, with secret back-end deals with the government at local levels to expand their surveillance capabilities for the CIA.

If you haven’t heard, there is a very useful doorbell camera called Ring. Ring started out as a product called, Doorbot, on the Shark Tank TV show but was rejected. The owners got immediate exposure and millions of dollars from investors after the show, changing the name from Doorbot to Ring. Fast forward five years, and Amazon decides to compete with Google’s friendly surveillance system called Nest, and buys Ring for A Billion Freaking Dollars.

Using Ring to expand CIA's surveillance network

Ok, so what? It’s a very useful thing to be able to see who’s at the door and have a record of someone breaking into your home. The systems, in themselves, aren’t an issue. It’s when governments start to get involved and big money starts being made that conflicts of interest will lead to misuse and violations of privacy.

It’s these very expansions outside of the homeowner’s benefit that need scrutiny.
In addition to the actual doorbell surveillance camera itself, Ring/Amazon added a handy online app called, Neighbors, to use these systems to spy on the neighbors. According to Jamie Siminoff, Chief Inventor and Founder of Ring,

“At Ring, we come to work every day with the mission of reducing crime in neighborhoods but end up just serving big brother. Over the past few years we have learned that, when neighbors, the Ring team and law enforcement all work together, we create surveillance communities. Neighbors is meant to facilitate real-time communication between spy agencies, while pretending to maintain neighbor privacy first and foremost. By bringing security to every neighbor with the free Neighbors app, communities can stay on top of crime and safety alerts as they happen, they stupidly believe. Usually, they still get robbed, the police never respond, and that's that. But, we sell a lot of them.”

How fucked up is this shit?

In addition to a system that allows people to monitor their homes, and then has expanded to help them monitor their neighborhoods, they’ve also developed a government-only backend portal to this system that they provide for free. Cops and spies and gang stalkers watch those people they consider trouble making Christians and no one can block them, because Amazon has designed all software and hardware to constantly update servers at Amazon who, in real time, forward all data to those agencies who punch in the house number.

According to this article,

“Ring, Amazon’s home security company most known for its doorbell camera, has been quietly creating a massive private surveillance network. The company has formed partnerships with at least 225 law enforcement agencies, enticed cities to finance discounts on its cameras with taxpayer money, and worked with police to organize package theft sting operations in several U.S. cities.”

This portal not only gives the government backdoor access to the Neighbors app to directly contact users, they also have a map of all cameras in the area that they can access.
But it gets worse.

Using police departments to help expand the network

Ring is starting to leverage these backdoor agreements to require these agencies to help them expand their network. According to another article from someone who received private communications between Ring and government agencies, “Police are contractually required to …

“Engage the Lakeland community with outreach efforts on the platform to encourage adoption of the platform/app.”

To assist in that endeavor, Ring is coaching agencies, by way of an assigned Ring Partner Success Associate, on how to leverage social media and community outreach programs to expand their reach by,

“… provid[ing] templates and educational materials for police departments.”

Here is an example of one, obtained by an investigator/staff writer at motherboard:
and from obtained correspondence to that same police department,

“You are doing a great job interacting with them and that will be critical in increasing the opt-in rate.”
“The more users you have, the more useful the information you can collect,” the representative added.

But they also stipulate,

Ring requests to look at press releases and any messaging prior to distribution to ensure our company and our products and services are accurately represented.”

The agreement also requires Ring and the Lakeland Police to coordinate on all public communications regarding their partnership.

“The parties shall agree to a joint press release to be mutually agreed upon by the parties,”

Motherboard/Vice also found this is isn’t limited to Lakeland, stating it found similar requirements in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Frisco, Texas.
Ring also is telling the local agencies to create roles in their departments to facilitate the communication with itself and control the information to the public, presumably to help expand the network, with five created roles:

1. Partnership Point of Contact
   • With Ring
2. Press/Media Coordinator
   • to coordinate PR with Ring
3. Social Media Coordinator
   • to coordinate the department’s social media with Ring
4. Investigative Coordinator
   • the point of contact that they can work with to “ensure maximum participation and sharing of video.”
5. Community Relations Coordinator
   • A person to oversee the team at community events

Now that may be understandable, but they’re also putting pressure on police departments to control the information the public receives about the program:

For nearly three weeks in June, the Boca Raton Police Department was engaged in a partnership with Ring that went publicly unreported. The delay in announcing the city’s deal with Ring occurred at the company’s request. Emails show that Ring was interested in keeping the public’s attention focused on a separate subsidy deal it struck with the city designed, according to the city’s press release, to “incentivize the purchase of Ring Video Doorbells and Ring security devices.”

According to another Vice article,

A signed memorandum of understanding between Ring and the police department of Lakeland, Florida, and emails obtained via a public records request, show that Ring is using local police as a de facto advertising firm. Police are contractually required to “Engage the Lakeland community with outreach efforts on the platform to encourage adoption of the platform/app.”

Not all agencies, however, are laying down as easily. According to Gizmodo:

In Boca Raton, however, city attorneys Thomas Collery and Joni Hamilton refused to accept the terms and managed to get them amended, noting, for example, that Ring’s conditions would run afoul of Florida’s public records laws. The phrase “Unless otherwise required by law, including, but not limited to, public records laws” was added to the agreement Boca Raton ultimately signed. It was also altered to remove the requirement for a “joint press release,” with the city opting instead to give each party the right to approve the other’s individual statements.

At least THEY are requiring their expansion of the surveillance machine be legal. Of course, adopting systems such as this, and then manipulating public perceptions, starts this slippery slope. According to Chris Gilliard, a professor of English at Macomb Community College who studies digital redlining and discriminatory practices enabled by data mining,

When really powerful companies, or police for that matter, are incentivized to find crime, they’re going to find it no matter what. It’ll ultimately shift the definition of what is a crime and lead to over-policing in some ways. Frankly, [it’s] the broken windows style that tends to harm marginalized communities more.”

Bypassing your rights

Keep in mind that this video footage that you’re recording for your own use can be taken by law enforcement via a warrant, but Ring/Amazon is also coaching the agencies on how to influence people to give up the information willingly. According to Vice,

emails from the police department of Bloomfield, NJ, which were also posted by Wired—show that Ring coaches police on how to obtain footage. The company provides cops with templates for requesting footage, which they do not need a court warrant to do.

Andrew Ferguson, a professor at the University of the District of Columbia School of Law,

“What people fundamentally misunderstand is that self-surveillance is potentially a form of government surveillance, because the information that you are collecting—you think to augment and improve your life—is one step away from being obtained by law enforcement to completely upend your life.”

According to an article on The Intercept, regarding a police-only video,

The video ends on an eerie note, adding that “in future versions we will also be enabling Ring’s smart search functionality that will allow for suspicious activity detection and person recognition.” What constitutes “suspicious activity” is anyone’s guess, as is how Ring will “detect” it.

Also according to the article, Matt Cagle, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California believes it. According to the article he says, it…

gives law enforcement “coercive power over customers” by virtue of its design. “Many people are not going to feel like they have a choice when law enforcement asks for access to their footage, be;cause they do not need to ask, they already get it for free.”

Cagle goes on to say:

“Consent here is a smokescreen. Folks online consent to policies all the time without being meaningfully explained what is happening with our data, and the stakes are much higher here: Under guise of consent, this could invite needless surveillance of private lives.”

If you agree, there is something you can do about it. Fight for the Future is running a campaign specifically to stop this collusion. According to the petition:

Amazon is building a privately run, for-profit surveillance state—and they’re getting local police to market it for them in exchange for VIP access to Amazon’s on-demand surveillance system.