Just as a small reminder what universities are all about: The dominant reason for the foundation of the Sorbonne was a surge in heresies. The principal idea was

Just as a small reminder what universities are all about: The dominant reason for the foundation of the Sorbonne was a surge in heresies. The principal idea was to prepare for the next heresy and being able to respond quickly to challenges yet unknown. The university is essentially about a wager on the future, not about mastering the present. Which brings us to what a university should be about: * Understanding principles * Being able to draw connections from principles to novel ends * Being able to argue your point * Being able to discern, whether a point is argued properly or not (according to these rules and the rules of the particular discipline/field) * Knowing about the current state of the art/ideas and their relation to principles Nothing of this includes a use case for spyware like this. It actually indicates that the institution does not manage at least one of those aforementioned goals. And it it's an indication for that institution rather answering to those challenges by a strict regime of established procedures, which is exactly what a university is all not about.