The University of California Office of the President has installed computer hardware capable of monitoring email transactions among computers across the University of California system. According to a letter by Ethan Ligon, an associate professor of agricultural and resource economics at UC Berkeley, the hardware is designed to monitor and possibly record all network traffic, including email traffic, coming in and out of Berkeley’s computer networks. Read more...

Photo: University of California President Janet Napolitano announced the installment of computer hardware to monitor email transactions in the UC system. (Daily Bruin file photo)