Stanford University requires remote access to students' iPhones

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All Stanford students were recently required to install this app on their phones and their Stanford accounts were blocked until they complied.

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What do you mean by "requires?" That disclaimer is the boilerplate iOS disclaimer for enrolling the device for mdm, which is generally useful for pushing profiles for wireless access, vpn, e-mail, etc... I'm not sure what their policy is, but I doubt it is as nefarious as your submission implies.

Is this real?

If it is, then these are early signs of that dying model, you know. I don't mean to say that the case of these overreaching universities is as bad as that of Hollywood/MPAA but traits are similar. It's a good thing for education space in tech, not so good for those who will be a part of the brick and mortar model during transition.

My 2 cents.

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