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University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy

Posted by timothy on from the give-me-lobster-and-I-won't-skip-dinner dept.

Norsefire writes "A Japanese University is giving away iPhones to its students to use the phones' GPS functionality to catch students who skip classes. The University claims students currently fake attendance by having other students answer for them during rollcall, they also said that while this can be abused by giving other students the phone, they are much less likely to do this due to the personal information, such as email, a phone generally contains."

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  1. Re:Not hard to circumvent. by genner · · Score: 0, Troll

    Correct me if I'm wrong: The iPhone doesn't have background applications, so the student has to go to class, sit down, run the app to locate his or herself. Couldn't they then could quit the app, get up and leave?

    They can assume your absent if your off grid.

  2. Re:There is always an easier solution... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even more frustrating is; grades are more about attendance than performance.

    With that and the crap about their racism and treatment of people whose distant ancestors were butchers/undertakers, why do we even consider them an economic threat?

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  3. Re:Let me explain the situation over here... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, but that doesn't change for a second the fact that the SAT and ACT are racist.

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