SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students

cwmoore

“an area open to public use, where no reasonable expectation of privacy exists” becomes: “an area open to public use, where reasonable expectation of no privacy exists”

HDBaseT

Not suggesting this is okay, but the 1,300 "AI Cameras" are placed in "classroom buildings, bookstores, dining areas, parking structures, gyms and the residence halls". Reading the title suggested to me that the cameras were installed even in the doom rooms, but this isn't the case. The article reads a bit strange "and the residence halls where students sleep." but the students don't sleep in the hall, they sleep in rooms adjacent to the hall.

MarkusQ

Sounds like security cameras. I'll bet they installed smoke detectors and emergency lighting and all sorts of other things without telling students either.

Brian_K_White

The whole expectation of privacy argument is so obtuse. If I find you in public and start staring at you and following you everywhere without ever going away, including camping out at the door of every private space you enter and exit. You will absolutely have a problem with it. We even have a word for it and laws about it. The fact that the barista saw you at the coffee shop and your roomate saw you at the library and the book store has an ordinary security camera are nothing remotely equivelant. One is stalking, even harassment, and the others are not.