The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is challenging a letter recently sent by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to colleges and universities seeking the schools’ cooperation in monitoring peer-to-peer file trading on university networks.
In its own open letter to colleges and universities, EPIC wrote, “While network monitoring is appropriate for certain purposes such as security and bandwidth management, the surveillance of individuals’ Internet communications implicates important rights, and raises questions about the appropriate role of higher education institutions in policing private behavior.”
