Officials Predict Colleges Will Be Exempt From Ruling on Network Surveillance

Call it viewing the glass as half full. In the absence of a definitive statement from either the courts or the Federal Communications Commission on whether colleges must re-engineer their networks to comply with the government's online-surveillance needs, a leading higher-education group is betting that the law is on colleges' side.

In legal guidance released this month, the American Council on Education told colleges that they probably need not worry about an FCC regulation requiring

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