Alabama doesn't want students to leave football games early. So the school started tracking them.
The University of Alabama's vaunted football team is so good at beating up its opponents on the gridiron that students often leave home games early, much to the chagrin of legendary head coach Nick Saban.So the school has come up with a unique -- and some say creepy -- idea: Starting this season, the university offers an app the students can download onto their phones which tracks their location. That way the school would know if they left the game early, The New York Times reports.
Privacy concernsThe use of the app brings up lots of privacy concerns. CNN reached out to the university for comment on that and hadn't heard back yet. But Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne told the Times it really shouldn't be an issue because students can either close the app or delete it once they leave the stadium. Alabama doesn't have problems getting students to stick around to the end of exciting Southeastern Conference games.
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