The next time you’re walking on campus you can be seen by billions of people, not just those around you. Thanks to modern technology, people all over the world can peer into our lives on campus.

There are four known cameras located on our campus. There’s one outside the First Year College building, one outside the Honors Village, one in the Brickyard and one in the East Wing of D.H. Hill Library. Who knows? There could be more.

Having Webcams throughout our campus is both an observational tool for studying social interaction and an apparatus that aids internet stalking. This exemplary stalking behavior is best exhibited by recent screenshots of ladies in the library placed on The Wolf Web message board.

Webcams around campus are not necessarily bad. However, students need to be informed of where on campus their image will be captured and sent over the World Wide Web. People don’t deserve to stumble upon photos of themselves walking around campus on random message boards.

The University needs to develop a policy on how future Webcams will be implemented. This campus doesn’t need to have Webcams streaming live video from every building on campus. Going overboard with this technology can lead to furthering the Big Brother environment this campus has.

Technologies, such as streaming Webcam feeds, add a wonderful flavor to the campus. It’s when people abuse the technology that there is a problem. Those viewing the Webcams to make posts on message boards need to grow up.

The next time you are walking around campus in one of the areas mentioned above, remember that people are watching you and your image may be saved and used on Web sites.

The University should do its part to ensure that overuse of Webcams on our campus doesn’t occur. Policies need to be put in place to prevent this abuse.