A look at US schools' growing use of mobile phone tracking tech from companies like Inpixon, using scanners to pick up Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cell signals
Teachers often lament that phones can be a distraction in classrooms. Some governments have even banned phones outright in schools.
NEW: At least 10 schools across the US have installed radio frequency scanners to track kids using signals from their phones. If the kids are too young to have phones, they're bringing in tracker wristbands: https://www.cnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
It is unconscionable what we are doing to the newest generation of kids. They are growing up in dystopia. Shame on everyone involved. https://twitter.com/...
“Technology is often sold to entire school districts, not just a single school. That means the data collected from kids in kindergarten could follow them all the way until they go to college,” @alfredwkng reports in @CNET https://www.cnet.com/...
Fun story, I did a summer research project at Cambridge U ages ago on using RFID trackers on cows to track supply chain in case of mad cow disease. This is basically the same thing. https://twitter.com/...
surveillance makes kids less safe not more safe surveillance makes kids less safe not more safe surveillance makes kids less safe not more safe surveillance makes kids less safe not more safe surveillance makes kids less safe not more safe stop this plz https://twitter.com/...
At least 10 schools across the US have installed radio frequency scanners, which pick up on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals from students' phones and track them with accuracy down to about one meter: https://www.cnet.com/...
Inpixon offers indoor positioning analytics, which is often used by marketers to figure out where shoppers are. It's also used by prisons for security purposes. Now it's in schools: https://www.cnet.com/...