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[ NNSquad ] Tracking Athletes Online as Legal Red Flags Flutter
Tracking Athletes Online as Legal Red Flags Flutter
http://j.mp/H7sMCl (New York Times)
"Every school, we work to customize their keyword list," said Sam
Carnahan, the chief executive of Varsity Monitor, which has offices in
Seattle and New York and also provides educational programs to
universities. "We look for things that could damage the school's brand
and anything related to their eligibility." Yet what may look to some
like a business opportunity, and to universities and their athletic
departments like due diligence, appears to others to be an invasion of
privacy. "I think it's violating the Constitution to have someone
give up their password or user name," said Ronald N. Young, a Maryland
state senator who has sponsored a bill aimed at stopping universities
from monitoring athletes digitally. "It's like reading their mail or
listening to their phone calls."
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