The CBS radio station in Boston has the following
report about Harvard University, well-known source of bellowing about invasions of privacy and spying out of control:
A research project at Harvard
University
is causing a lot of controversy this morning. The school has acknowledged that it secretly photographed more than 2,000 students in 10 lecture halls as part of a study on classroom attendance. During a meeting Tuesday night, Peter K. Bol, Harvard's vice provost for advances in learning, said that researchers in the Initiative for Learning and Teaching, which Bol oversees, installed the cameras last spring as a way to track attendance. The cameras would snap pictures of students and a computer would scan the images. The names of students whose images were taken have not been released but the revelation has a lot of people talking.
Yes, well, I'll just bet it "has a lot of people talking."
This is a good one to remember next time we hear some Ivy League symposium about how the NSA, which unlike Harvard has at least a modicum of interest in the nation's security, is stripping us of our "civil liberties."
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