aceRutgers is quietly surveilling its students like never before. Here’s what the AI tech can do.
The software can recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects across campus, but the purchase never came before the university’s governing board, and no one announced it. Last week, a solitary technician balanced on a ladder, fixing a small camera to the brick wall of the Rieman Chemistry Lab at Rutgers University in Piscataway. At the foot of the ladder, a handful of unopened boxes held more of the same white, dome-s
AI camera software able to recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects is being installed across Rutgers, yet the purchase bypassed the governing board and was never announced, limiting oversight.
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