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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Would it get under your skin if university administrators poked around in your emails?

Located in Boston, not far from Harvard
Some blog readers may recall the brouhaha that erupted at Harvard when some administrators poked around in university emails trying to discover who was leaking info about a student cheating affair.  A dean apparently ended up resigning when the email searching became known.  The Boston Globe is reporting that a Harvard-commissioned report has determined that the administrators were acting in "good faith."  See http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/07/22/outside-counsel-harvard-acted-good-faith-covert-mail-searches/jvB5oSwd8MZL2m0wlTuLSP/story.html.  A shorter version of the story from Inside Higher Ed is at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/subscription/1400ab32f5244acf.

Moral: Don't put anything in email you wouldn't want made public. Unless, of course, you believe that whatever you say will be used in good faith:

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