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Saint Louis University to Give Amazon Echo Dots to Every Student Living on Campus

posted by martyb on Monday August 20 2018, @12:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the need-to-add-some-dits-to-do-morse-code dept.

takyon writes:

Saint Louis University is placing 2,300 Echo Dots in student living spaces

Saint Louis University has announced that it will be placing Amazon Echo Dot devices, powered by Alexa for Business, in every student residence hall room or student apartment on campus. While other colleges, like Arizona State University, have put Echo Dots in student housing before, SLU says this is the first time a college will equip every student living space with an Amazon Alexa-enabled device.

[...] In regards to privacy concerns, SLU says that because it is using the Amazon Alexa for Business platform, every Echo Dot is managed by a central system that is not tied to any individual accounts. No personal information will be collected so all use is anonymous. The Echo Dots will also not keep any recordings of questions that are asked. If a student wants to opt out of using the Echo Dot given to them, they can simply store it, unplugged, and turn it in at the end of the school year.

Also at Engadget.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by takyon on Monday August 20 2018, @05:19AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday August 20 2018, @05:19AM (#723627) Journal

    L.A. Unified to get $6.4 million in settlement over iPad software [latimes.com] (2015)

    The Los Angeles Unified School District has reached a tentative $6.4-million settlement over curriculum from education software giant Pearson that the school system said its teachers barely used.

    The pact is the latest fallout from an aborted $1.3-billion plan to provide an iPad to every student, teacher and campus administrator in the nation's second-largest school district.

    LAUSD Officials Won't Face Federal Charges In iPad Scandal [patch.com] (2017)

    No federal charges will be filed as a result of an investigation into the awarding of contracts to Apple for a $1.3 billion program to purchase thousands of iPads for Los Angeles Unified students and teachers, it was announced Tuesday.

    David Holmquist, L.A. Unified's general counsel, said the district had received notice from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles that the probe was closed and no charges would be filed.

    "In November 2014, L.A. Unified received grand jury subpoenas from the U.S. Attorney's Office seeking records relating to the procurement process for tablet computers as part of an investigation by the FBI," Holmquist said in a statement.

    "Since then, the district had been fully cooperating with the federal government's investigation," he said. "We have received notification from the U.S. Attorney's Office that the investigation has been closed."

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