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They're being pushed very hard from the supply side while lacking much push-back internally due to dwindling expertise and leadership.

This 4 parter I wrote for Techrights [1] and the Times article that seeded it [2] go into detail.

[1] http://techrights.org/2022/12/28/andy-farnell-on-british-uni...

[2] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eliminating-harm...

Security cameras in universities seem to be accomplishing… nothing. I am getting very frequent emails (2-3 per week) from one of the top US universities with blurry unusable screenshots of perpetrators stealing items, breaking in, assaulting students, etc. Makes me think - should they not invest into better security instead?

some industry players want to normalize facial recognition and location tracking

I had to laugh at one of the authors being Christine L. Borgman. I'm sure all our data will be treated respectfully when fully integrated into their unaccountable profit-driven total surveillance system.