Today, visiting professor Bill Staples presented his work on surveillance in American schools in our Center for Science and Technology Studies. Drawing on Foucault and interview excerpts from a large field work, Staples described how a new student information system (SIS) has accentuated information asymmetries between students, teachers and parents and affected behaviours in many interesting ways. The presentation was followed by a great discussion on intimate surveillance, information ecologies, Deleuze and Foucault.