Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children
The Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices - military recruiting at schools and location-based phone surveillance - to persuade teens to enlist, according to contract documents reviewed by The Intercept.The federal contract materials outline plans by the Georgia Army National Guard to geofence 67 different public high schools throughout the state, targeting phones found within a one-mile boundary of their campuses with recruiting advertisements "with the intent of generating qualified leads of potential applicants for enlistment while also raising awareness of the Georgia Army National Guard."