On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the kind of heavy hand that Stanford is laying down on > students and faculty who do not want to give up their privacy.
This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to no backlash against spyware requirements for exams in most law-schools. (unless you want the massive disadvantage of turning in your exam on paper…) I can't fathom how people it was remotely acceptable to require the installation of spyware on students systems at institutions training people for work which handles confidential client information where running such software ought to be considered an violation of professional conduct. But there you go— the world is an unfathomable place and here we have just a natural continuation of that unfathomably. Cynically, I might suggest that the issue causing the complaints is not the spyware, is that you don't get anything in return for it that you weren't already receiving. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
