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A similar story unfolded at my university? [1,2]. Initially deployed as "scanners" instead of cameras. Similar to this story at Northeastern the board argued they needed to be able to assess room occupancy. With the cameras now disabled they increased the counting done by humans, who now just walk into the classrooms (they used to avoid doing so). I suppose they can later argue the cameras are less annoying and a computer counting would actually be more privacy friendly than a human. Without evaluating the necessity of the counting in the first place. A question also raised in the article.

[1] https://www.mareonline.nl/en/news/report-on-cameragate-confi... [2] https://unseeusleiden.noblogs.org/