Monday, February 3, 2014

Bergen University Admits Spying on Students

Norway - Every student has their own access card to make use of everything from the schools library to the toilets. When the students swipe their card, person, time and place gets registered and saved for 90 days...

With this system, the University can track all of the students´ movements... 

Law student Peter Haraldsen believes that this type of spying is illegal. He demands the University to stop logging their students´ movements... 

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority says that Bergen University might have crossed an illegal path, because the cards registers movements without asking the student to verify it with a pin code. (more)