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).

Comments

Re:there was no consent

[Anonymous Coward]

The simple fact that the campus OWNS the networks gives them automatically all sorts of rights.

Not when it infringes on other peoples privacy (no matter how commonly it happens). It has to be spelled out clearly for the students to be aware when they sign an Internet use contract.