The Paris Bar School (EFB) has set up a new system for monitoring the attendance of its student lawyers.
This system involves the installation of an application called Edusign. The problem is that the latter will validate the student’s presence thanks to… geolocation. What did not really please the future black dresses.
An application to geolocate them all
Edusign. This may be the name of the new fight of lawyers in the classrooms. This is the name of the application that the management of the EFB de Paris wants to impose on all of its students’ smartphones. This app, intended to badge at the entrance to the course, will also track the presence of the student.
” Attention, we will retrieve your location to verify that you are indeed in the training center “, is it thus explicitly stated in the tutorial sent by e-mail to the students on February 17th. The new attendance system was detailed there. According to Edusign, its system incorporates a ” QR code […] coupled with geolocation of the device to ensure that it is in the room “.
The solution to absenteeism?
Geolocation to signify its current presence… We imagine that the future defenders of rights and freedoms must have been burnt. And indeed, several have already complained on Twitter while a petition has been launched to protest. ” We, representatives of the students of the Dominique Simonnot promotion, are opposed to this system which is akin to a “policing” of students, completely disproportionate in its means of control, prejudicial to our rights and freedom “, they say.
However, if the process is unpleasant, it would be the consequence of a strong absenteeism on the part of student lawyers. And the habit of some of having friends badge in their place so as not to have to attend classes that would not interest them. Asked by Le Figaro student, a student explains that some subjects make class empty. ” This morning again, we were only about fifty students in class out of 400 “, she says. Reason enough to impose surveillance technology, which is tending to become widespread, as shown by the new tools created for the 2024 Olympics?
Source : Le Figaro student
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