Abstract
Since 9/11 and particularly since the massacre at Virginia Tech University in 2007, many universities in the United States have begun installation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) systems on their campuses. What sorts of claims are being made about the use of these systems and what justifications are there for installing them? How might the pervasive use of monitoring technology affect traditional values associated with university life such as freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, privacy, and the freedom to explore? What policies are in place to ensure that whatever benefits associated with these systems justify both tangible and intangible costs?Our analysis is partially derived from a study of university policies in the United States concerning the installation and operation of CCTV systems with the aim of gaining insight into these questions. In addition, we used a coding instrument for analyzing the corpus of policies in order to understand how the policies addressed such issues as: rationale or justification for CCTV usage, relevant personnel roles, public awareness, accountability measures, information security and data handling, routine operations of usage, and any relevant limiting measures. One aspect of our study is to interpret the corpus of policies through the lens of Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity framework which is concerned with examining the effects of new technological practices (such as the installation of CCTV systems) on one’s expectation of privacy.
Highlights
Since 9/11 and since the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2007, many universities in the United States have installed Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) systems on their campuses
How might the pervasive use of monitoring technology affect traditional values associated with university life and academic freedom? Have claims made justifying the use of these systems been examined in light of possible adverse consequences of their use? Are there procedures that will ensure that whatever benefits associated with these systems justify both tangible and intangible costs? Who are the stakeholders and what are their interests in the use of CCTV? We analyzed a corpus of university policies in the United States concerning the installation and operation of CCTV systems with the aim of gaining insight into these questions
Our analysis is guided by Nissenbaum‟s (2010) contextual integrity (CI) framework which is concerned with examining the effects of new technological practices on one‟s expectation of privacy
Summary
Since 9/11 and since the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2007, many universities in the United States have installed Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) systems on their campuses. We analyzed a corpus of university policies in the United States concerning the installation and operation of CCTV systems with the aim of gaining insight into these questions. The aim of this paper is to examine official university positions with regard to the use of CCTV systems on their campuses. Our objective is to understand how the installation of CCTV systems could affect the expectation of privacy on the part of members of the university community and their academic freedom. Our analysis is guided by Nissenbaum‟s (2010) contextual integrity (CI) framework which is concerned with examining the effects of new technological practices (such as the installation of CCTV systems) on one‟s expectation of privacy. The analysis proceeds along a series of steps that seek to understand how the introduction of CCTV in the university setting changes information transmissions; and how it supports or fails to support values, goals, and objectives integral to university culture
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