CSU police official calls for colleges to monitor students online

October 5, 2011

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California Watch (CA)

By Ryan Gabrielson

"Billions of details about students’ lives pulse through university computer servers every day. The data is in e-mails from school accounts, in online purchases and Facebook updates made on school Internet connections."

"This flood of data might contain clues to future violent threats at colleges. A campus police lieutenant at CSU Channel Islands is arguing that university officials need to use that information to monitor their student bodies. ..."

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