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it's called UNC. Check in. It's a new app that allows students to check into their classes and for instructors to take attendance digitally. Reporter Jackson Linear has more on why the university created the app and the controversy surrounding the technology. In the spring of 2018 UNC psychology professor Dr Vigee Southie began working with U. N. C. I T Services to develop a way to make taking class attendance easier. They insult a Bluetooth beacon and Dr Southeast Classroom to detect the proximity of students phones and used an app to log student's attendance. Faculty support for the technology group. And before the start of this semester, the university installed Bluetooth beacons in every classroom on campus. So how does the APP work? First, a student must download the APP. Then the APP uses the phones, Bluetooth and GPS to determine the students location. Once a student's phone is within the range of the Bluetooth beacon, the UNC check in APP will then display the class name. After clicking on the class, your attendance is logged. But not everyone is happy about the app. In 2018 the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that location data is private information nonprofit digital rights group, the Elektronik Frontier Foundation, told Carolina Week. We have serious privacy and security concerns about any school requiring or even requesting that students download any location tracking APP school should not be requiring students to hand over their location information as a cost of getting an education. Nor should they be requesting that students voluntarily hand over such sensitive information. The university has advertised the APP as a way to save instructors time and to make sure attendance records don't get lost. UNC did not respond to our request for an interview about the APP in Chapel Hill. I'm Jackson Lanier Carolina Week U. N. C. Is not the only university rolling out systems to track students. Schools such a Syracuse University, the University of Missouri, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Alabama have implemented similar technology.