Miguel Afonso Caetano#Surveillance #Universities #HigherEd #CampusSurveillance: "At university campuses, people who are subjected to surveillance “don’t have a lot of control over the technology and how it’s used”, says Jason Kelley, the activism director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization advocating for digital rights, based in San Francisco, California. “One of the issues we’ve seen … is that it often ends up being used for disciplinary purposes,” he adds.
This is a key concern of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), after discovering that small white cubes had been installed in their workplace in June.
These sensors are part of the university’s Live Density Program, which began in 2018 to help administrators to understand how to “use campus space more effectively”, according to an explanation posted on the university’s website. UCSD says that the programme will expand to more than 100 academic, research and administrative buildings on campus, purportedly owing to the shift to flexible working arrangements after the pandemic."
Francesco Ragazzi