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A surveillance camera at Brown. Photo: GoLocalProv Brown University has a surveillance camera for every nine undergraduate students, based on the analysis of a doctoral candidate.  According to PhD candidate Jack Wrenn, Brown has 816 cameras across campus, which is roughly the amount of full-time faculty. Brown enrolls approximately 7,160 undergraduate students. “Since 2017, my friends and I have marked the locations of approximately 150 surveillance cameras on College Hill. While this is only a fraction of Brown University’s more than 800 cameras, the scope of the surveillance is stagge...

Expensive and Painful Cyber Attacks Right now it is Brown University -- in the past, it has been small towns in RI and hospital groups. The cyberattack has forced the school to shut some systems down — in an event that Brown is calling an “utmost priority.”  Jack Wrenn, a fifth-year doctoral candidate, said that official information was still “frustratingly scant” as of Wednesday night.  Wrenn provided a timeline as to what he understood transpired, and when the university community was notified.  “Systems appear to have gone down at 7:19 a.m. [on Tuesday],” said Wrenn. “At...