LMS facilitated surveillance is particularly relevant at a time when academic freedom is under assault.

The state of Alabama just passed a law prohibiting all state workers (college professors included) from using the term “Gulf of Mexico”.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/state-policy/...

Texas A&M university has censored teaching Plato’s philosophy because he described same-sex relationships.

https://www.aaup.org/academe/issue/fall-2026/legal-watch-def...