Colleges Fear Anti-Terrorism Law Could Turn Them Into Big Brother

Provisions about networks and library records raise privacy and academic-freedom issues

By SCOTT CARLSON and ANDREA L. FOSTER

Opening student computer files without their permission. Reporting on the library books checked out by a graduate student. Collecting data on who on campus is sending e-mail to whom. To many college technology and library...

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