Digital surveillance of scholars ‘eroding academic freedom’

This system was predicted by this 2019 pre-pandemic book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-20385-6 what is happening, including the hard repression of students and scholars in the United States, perfectly fits the utilitarian model of universities

It is disingenuous to conflate the pro-Gaza sit-ins with the general move to excess monitoring. Such protests do no involve the majorty or staff (or students) and disrupt legitimate university activity, whereas the monitoring process is insidious and potentially impacts all staff. Luckily I am (a) about to retire and (b) working at a university that does not engage in heavy-handed monitoring. It is sad to hear that not all employers are as enlightened.

Perhaps it's because I'm a computer scientist, but I find an increasing change in management style more oppressive than whatever may or may not be happening digitally. I moved into academia after the better part of 20 years in further education and found it a refreshing change. Alas there is a growing impression that we cannot be left alone to get on with doing our jobs, cannot in essence be trusted, and I find that very sad.