University of Michigan surveillance contracts

*University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations.*

However, the university put the blame entirely on excessive zeal by one employee of the company. Based on reports, it was more than one employee. More deeply, the wrong was not limited to the methods used by the company. The decision to snoop on students and staff preemptively to quash protests was the root of the evil. The university must repudiate that practice, not just the methods used.

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