Inside the campus privacy battle over smart building sensors | MIT Technology Review

These computer scientists were trying to create privacy-preserving smart sensors. But then they were accused of violating their colleagues’ privacy.

Computer scientists designing the future can’t agree on what privacy means | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content When computer science students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research returned to campus in the summer of 2020, there was a lot to adjust to. Beyond the inevitable strangeness of being around colleagues again after months of social distancing, the department was also moving into a brand-new building: the 90,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art TCS Hall. The hall’s futuristic features included carbon dioxide sensors that automatically pipe in fresh

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