Universities are forging ties with the #FBI as US cracks down on foreign influence
▻https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00646-9
The University of South Alabama in Mobile went a step further: in September, it hired David Furman, a retired FBI agent specializing in economic espionage and counter-intelligence, as its director of information technology and risk compliance. Furman writes that he has been speaking one-on-one to faculty members, who now view him “as a resource, as opposed to a ‘threat’ to their research productivity”.