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Online Colleges Could Spy On Students – By Law

Posted by timothy on from the pay-for-your-papers-please dept.

skeazer writes "Tucked away in a 1,200-page bill now in Congress is a small paragraph that could lead distance-education institutions to require spy cameras in their students' homes. It sounds Orwellian, but the paragraph — part of legislation renewing the Higher Education Act — is all but assured of becoming law by the fall. No one in Congress objects to it."

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  1. Re:Right. by z00_miak · · Score: 1, Troll

    I am in favor of this law.

    I mean, after all, I've been given no reason to distrust either the government or large institutions with my privacy. I firmly believe they are acting in our best interests.

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