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Monday, February 25, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i25/25a03101.htm Colleges Fear Anti-Terrorism Law Could Turn Them Into Big Brother SCOTT CARLSON and ANDREA L. FOSTER Opening student computer files without their permission. Reporting on the library books checked out by a graduate student. Collecting data on who on campus is sending e-mail to whom. To many college technology and library officials, these sound like invasions of privacy that are antithetical to the traditions of academe. But these are the sorts of actions that a new law may well permit or in some cases require. And colleges are struggling to understand their obligations and rights under the measure, which is only now attracting their attention and is leaving many campus officials confused or worried....
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