Digital rights advocates express alarm at proposal to surveil students and researchers
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The hypothetical plan to combat digital piracy called for the use of software to monitor those accessing academic material A recent proposal recommending the deployment of surveillance software in order to monitor those accessing academic material has drawn fire from digital rights advocates and scientists. The plan was outlined on October 22 during a virtual webinar hosted by a consortium of the world’s leading publishers of scientific journals, featuring security experts discussing the (...)
