MIT Tracking Campus Net Connections Since 1999

An anonymous reader writes "MIT has been monitoring student internet connections for the past decade without telling them. There is no official policy and no student input." The Tech article says, though, that the record keeping is fairly limited in its scope (connection information is collected, but not the data transferred) and duration (three days, for on-campus connections).

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And this is a bad thing because?

[/dev/trash]

Help me out with this?

Re:so its ok i put a camera in your car?

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

This is what happens when someone makes a stupid car analogy on slashdot. Instead of trying ignoring it or steering the subject back to what's actually being discussed... people /extend/ the damned things, making them /worse/! Little hover cameras? Gah!

Re: a car is a valid and necessary

[Anonymous Coward]

Driving is a privilege, remember? The state revokes licenses for all sorts of reasons, and expects people to continue living civilly. And while vehicle ownership is a new phenomenon, there has never been a civilization that wasn't maintained by armed men.

Re:Misleading Headline

[ZerdZerd]

The fact that they have a policy for cleaning the logs

TFA:

without an official policy governing how it may use or store the data.

though there is no official policy.

does not appear to have any policy covering the retention and use of connection or security logs