Sunday, October 27, 2013

Your College Is Watching You

By Nico Perrino

The National Security Agency? Nope. It's your average college or university.

Earlier this year, when Harvard University violated school policy [6] by secretly searching deans' email accounts, the world glimpsed the intrusive measures one school took to monitor online activity of its staff. "We needed to act to protect our students," said then-dean [7] of Harvard College Evelynn Hammonds, who authorized the search in response to leaked information about a high-profile cheating scandal at the Ivy League institution.

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