At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/technology/at-uc-berkeley-a-new-digital-privacy-protest.html
Under a program initiated by Ms. Napolitano, the former
secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama administration, the
university system began installing hardware and software in its
data centers that would monitor patterns of digital traffic,
like what websites are being visited by faculty and students, or
telltale signs of cyber intruders. The program, which was begun
with little notice or consultation, soon rankled a group of
professors at one campus, Berkeley, which has a deep-seated
ethos of academic freedom as the cradle of the free speech
movement in the 1960s. In recent days, the professors have begun
speaking out publicly about the issue. "My primary concern is
monitoring the private information of students and faculty in
secret," said Eric Brewer, a professor of computer science at
U.C. Berkeley. "I'm sure there's good intent. But I can't see a
good reason for doing it."
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