Heads in the Clouds? Measuring Universities’ Migration to Public Clouds: Implications for Privacy &amp; Academic Freedom
Journal: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Year: 2023

With the emergence of remote education and work in universities due to COVID-19, the 'zoomification' of higher education, i.e., the migration of universities to the clouds, reached the public discourse. Ongoing discussions reason about how this shift will take control over students' data away from universities, and may ultimately harm the privacy of researchers and students alike. However, there has been no comprehensive measurement of universities' use of public clouds and reliance on Software-