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Sunday, November 10, 2002
EPIC warns colleges against P2P monitoring - Scarlet Pruitt
A Washington, D.C., privacy group is taking aim at the music industry's efforts to enlist schools in monitoring students' peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file trading activities, sending out a letter to college and university presidents this week calling the surveillance "inappropriate" and "incompatible with intellectual freedom." "Monitoring chills behavior, and can squelch creativity that must thrive in educational settings," the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) wrote in the letter Wednesday.
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