On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:14:30PM -0700, Graduate Studies Web Master wrote: > > Individual privacy is protected by not allowing people to use or see your > information without your consent. By using the network you grant consent and > thereby surrender your right to privacy on the network. The privacy of all > other students is at stake if someone, through some mistake or misdeed, makes > the BYU network vulnerable. If, by monitoring e-mail on the network, > administrators are able to prevent that sort of breach of security, then the > relatively minor lack of privacy for the individual has protected the privacy > of many.
Here's where we disagree. I believe that we surrender our privacy far too frequently. There are ways to manage networks effectively without violating privacy, and I think that we need to expand our laws that protect privacy for phone calls to include computer networks in general. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
