Students uncover under-desk surveillance devices designed to track them

‘Non-consensual surveillance is never OK and must be fought,’ one student says

The Tech Workers Coalition shared images of the surveillance devices, which they claimed were installed without consent (TWC)

A US university has been accused of secretly installing invasive tracking devices to monitor students.

Heat sensors were reportedly placed under desks at Northeastern University’s Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex, according to a blog post by PhD candidate Max von Hippel.

“The sensors were installed overnight and without our consent,” Mr von Hippel wrote in a post published on the Tech Workers Coalition website.