SCHOOL FOR SPYING: HARVARD UNDER FIRE FOR SECRET SURVEILLANCE STUDY (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, November 07, 2014, 12:30

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Recent revelations that Harvard University had secretly photographed around 2,000 students as part of an attendance study has sparked a massive privacy row at the Ivy League institution.

According to reports, cameras that captured images every minute were placed in 10 classrooms around campus during the Spring 2014 semester. A computer program later scanned all of the images to determine how many empty and full seats there were during lectures. Students and professors were not told the study was being conducted.

The study, conducted by Harvard's Initiative for Learning and Teaching, was authorized by the school's Institutional Review Board.

It was first disclosed at a faculty meeting Tuesday and later reported in The Harvard Crimson student newspaper.

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