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Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'

Posted by Algernon_Asimov
Tags: privacy, china, gps, tracking, surveillance, truancy, education

Straight from the horse's mouth - China's own Global Times: Chinese schools monitor students activities, targeting truancy with 'intelligent uniforms'

A different view - the Australian Broadcasting Commission: Chinese schools enforce 'smart uniforms' with GPS tracking system to monitor students

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  1. lakhs_24
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    This is really creepy, perhaps a slippery slope into more widespread GPS tracking in China. At the same time, I would think that tracking students would be something hard to oppose - after all,...

    This is really creepy, perhaps a slippery slope into more widespread GPS tracking in China. At the same time, I would think that tracking students would be something hard to oppose - after all, 'won't anyone think of the children?' The thing that bothers me the most is that it is said in the article that they "choose not to check the accurate location of students after school" which seems to be a suspicious claim at best. I would hate to be in that situation as a child.

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  2. Wes
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    The really creepy line here for me: Not a fan of this at all.

    The really creepy line here for me:

    Through the help of the facial recognition equipment installed on the doors of schools, if students swap their uniforms, the alarm also rings.

    Not a fan of this at all.

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