<p>Does Berkeley’s policy allow ResComp to monitor how you use your internet? I mean, I know they’re allowed to monitor your bandwidth usage and warn you if you torrent (which I don’t, by the way). But I wonder if they’re allowed to pull up which websites you’re visiting. (There’s 6000+ people in the dorms, so I doubt they will unless they’re suspicious, but I still want to know where I stand on privacy.)</p>
<p>Also, I understand that if I run out of bandwidth in the dorms, AirBears on campus is still available to me. What’s the privacy level there?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Beyond policy, you must consider whether a subpoena could force them to deliver logs of what happens on the network. They wouldn’t want that to happen but ultimately a judge’s order, once it has been argued and debated and appealed, has to be obeyed.</p>
<p>I don’t do anything illegal online, so I don’t expect to get in trouble. However, I still want to know if someone at rescomp can randomly pull up my internet history and find out where I visit and for how long with no suspicion. I don’t think they’ll be bored enough to do so, but I just want to know for knowing’s sake.</p>
<p>well they certainly could from a technical standpoint, as your MAC address is used to validate your machine, thus they could track usage by MAC and then correlate it back to a student. The university has a pretty strong respect for privacy and personal responsibility, but I could see this happening if they had a malicious hacker they were chasing down, or some similar issue where it would protect the bulk of the community. Academic freedom and the ability to discuss any ideas and any positions is a fundamental at Cal, which makes it unlikely that anyone would CARE what you looked at or why.</p>