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Re: Privacy (fwd)
Thanks for the forward!
My question is: Since Wayne State University has assumed a role similar
to that of a publishing company (content regulator) do they also assume
the same legal liability as a publishing company?
>mliles@email.unc.edu wrote:
>
> Interesting...
>
> Melissa Liles, Graduate Student
> School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
> melissa_liles@unc.edu | liles@RegWeb.unc.edu
> Tel. 919/969-8328 | Fax. 919/962-6661
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:25:57 -0500 (EST)
> From: Margaret Blanchard <mablanch@email.unc.edu>
> To: jmcgrad <jmcgrad@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Privacy (fwd)
>
> From: John R Bittner <jrbittne@email.unc.edu>
>
> CRTNET NEWS
> Communication Research and Theory Network
>
> Reprinted from "Academe Today," the online service of the Chronicle
> of Higher Education:
>
> Wayne State U. Draws Fire for New Policy Limiting Computer Use and
> Privacy Rights
>
> By JULIANNE BASINGER
>
> Wayne State University's president has banned the use of the
> university's e-mail system and its Internet access for non-university
> purposes, prompting outrage among faculty members, who met last week
> and vowed to fight the new policy.
>
> The policy, issued late last month by David Adamany, informs students
> and faculty and staff members that the university reserves the right
> to monitor their use of its computer systems to insure that the
> equipment is employed in university-related work only.
> "Other uses are prohibited," the policy states, adding that Wayne
> State "is entitled to access and monitor its information-technology
> resources without prior notice."
>
> "Therefore, the university advises users that they have no privacy
> interest or expectation of privacy in information stored on or
> transmitted over the university's information-technology resources,
> and that access and monitoring is a reasonable means of advancing
> university purposes," the policy says. Violaters of the policy are
> subject to disciplinary action.
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