U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its value, study finds

Re:U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its ... by ghiculescu on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:22PM (#34199129)

This article feels like it took hundreds of words to say nothing at all.

The funniest part was the example of security cameras. What big breakthroughs are universities hoping to achieve with this data?

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Re:U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its ... by nonrandomstring on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:35PM (#34199266)

They're being pushed very hard from the supply side while lacking much push-back internally due to dwindling expertise and leadership.

This 4 parter I wrote for Techrights [1] and the Times article that seeded it [2] go into detail.

[1] http://techrights.org/2022/12/28/andy-farnell-on-british-uni...

[2] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/eliminating-harm...

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Re:U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its ... by mistrial9 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:23PM (#34199136)

some industry players want to normalize facial recognition and location tracking

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Re:U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its ... by jimlongton on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:28PM (#34199187)

I had to laugh at one of the authors being Christine L. Borgman. I'm sure all our data will be treated respectfully when fully integrated into their unaccountable profit-driven total surveillance system.

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Re:U.S. universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its ... by foreverCarlos on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:22PM (#34199736)

Security cameras in universities seem to be accomplishing… nothing. I am getting very frequent emails (2-3 per week) from one of the top US universities with blurry unusable screenshots of perpetrators stealing items, breaking in, assaulting students, etc. Makes me think - should they not invest into better security instead?

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