[Air-l] Perspective: It's my Internet--I can do what I want

elw at stderr.org elw at stderr.org
Thu Mar 30 15:14:48 PST 2006


> Employees roaming is interesting. Employers watching is worrisome. An 
> increasing number of colleagues (at my institution and elsewhere) have 
> expressed concerns that their chairs, deans, and/or provosts have gotten 
> access to their campus-based mail accounts, including citing specific 
> phrases that they believed they had used only in private communications. 
> Anyone have a sense of how likely (or common) that is (in academia or 
> anywhere)?

Indiana has a ton of sunshine laws.  Nothing sent to an indiana.edu mail 
account is really 'private' - rather, things are eminently subpoena-able.

--e



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