It often takes months - sometimes years - for the public to fully learn the extent of how law enforcement and universities use social media monitoring tools and facial recognition technologies to surveil protesters.
More than 1,900 people on at least 43 college campuses have been arrested at pro-Palestine protests in the last two weeks.
University police departments bought more surveillance tools during the pandemic, citing a need to monitor campus safety issues like potential shootings.
At least 37 colleges have used Social Sentinel, a social media monitoring tool that's reportedly been used to surveil student protesters, since 2015.
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