University uses iPhones as Spy Phones
p2pnet news view | Freedom:- A Japanese university has found a handy new application for iPhones.
Use them as remote spy devices to track down missing students.
“Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards,” says the Associated Press, going Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, “is giving Apple Inc.’s iPhone 3G to 550 students in its School of Social Informatics, which studies the use of Internet and computer technology in society.
“The gadget will work as a tool for studies, but it also comes with GPS, a satellite navigation system that automatically checks on its whereabouts … ”
Students who skip class, “could still fake attendance by giving their iPhone to a friend who goes to class,” says the story, “But youngsters aren’t likely to lend their mobile phones, which are packed with personal information and e-mail, according to the university.”
Associated Press – Japan university gives away iPhones to nab truants, May 29, 2009
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May 29th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
lol
I’d just tape my phone to the bottom of my desk and leave it there for the whole school year
May 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
lol
What’s the point of getting a phone then?
Or wait… if you don’t get a phone, you are attempting to escape state surveillance and will automatically be labeled a terrorist!