Comment by JumpCrisscross
7 years ago
> Many undergraduate, graduate and postgrads live on campus in housing provided by the university
Last I checked, universities weren’t busy papering the world in surveillance, pretending that’s a moral prerogative, refusing summons to the House of Commons, characterising whistleblowers with contempt, and then lying when they get caught acting unethically.
Universities have their own police forces, surveillance systems (they know every time you badge in or out somewhere, along with video footage and who knows what else) and when I was in college there was talk of installing metal detectors (thankfully the powers that be realized how idiotic this would have been). I'm not arguing that this makes surveillance OK, but from a perspective of housing, this feels overblown.