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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps some data hipsters can educate me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have a debate currently on what should be the standard of evidence when a student accuses another student of improprieties of any kind. It seems like men are inherently vulnerable to accusation which doesn’t need proof (because usually there isn’t any.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We could imagine some kind of device students could wear which would archive their location and record bits of sound, say a tenth of a second every second should be enough for what I have in mind. It is unlikely to be able to reconstruct a conversation from that, but it could establish innocence of an accused person by archiving a location and a background noise description (roughly.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This device would need to be something one wouldn’t take off when taking things off, such as a ring. It would need a Bluetooth transmitter to send digital files to a phone (which would add location info and archive.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If we could get enough students wearing these kinds of devices, it might lead us out of a deadlock where we don’t know how much weight to put on accusations. The accused could produce evidence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know what kind of data-storage capacity such a thing would require, if the phone could dump info to a desktop computer each day. Any hipsters on that here?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>