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It depends on the school. A university near me has people watching this data or some sort of anomaly detector running over it in real-time to try to catch parti
by tedks 12y ago
It depends on the school. A university near me has people watching this data or some sort of anomaly detector running over it in real-time to try to catch parties in dorms. I think that's more than a little Orwellian.
Also yes, it eliminates the possibility of dragnet searching. This is by design. Dragnet searches go against the principles on which the United States was founded. If I am not personally suspected of a crime, my data must be sacrosanct or I have been demeaned as an individual. Innocent until proven guilty and unspied-upon until suspected personally.
- superuser2 12y agoSwiping into a building is the electronic equivalent of signing in on a clipboard held by a security guard. That is hardly spying, and it's definitely not "your data." If a municipality were to do this with all the private residences under their jurisdiction, sure, that'd be Orwellian, because then it really is your data. In this case it's MIT's data about MIT's facility that happens to have been triggered by you.