Harvard secretly searched e-mails
Source: Boston Globe
Harvard University central administrators secretly searched the e-mail accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the media about the schools sprawling cheating case, according to several Harvard officials interviewed by the Globe.
The resident deans sit on Harvards Administrative Board, the committee charged with handling the cheating case. They were not warned that administrators planned to access their accounts, and only one was told of the search shortly afterward.
The dean who was informed had forwarded a confidential Administrative Board message to a student he was advising, not realizing it would ultimately make its way to the Harvard Crimson and the Globe and fuel the campus controversy over the cheating scandal.
All the Harvard officials interviewed by the Globe declined to identify the dean, although one said no punishment had been involved.
Read more: http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/09/harvard-university-administrators-secretly-searched-deans-email-accounts-hunting-for-media-leak/tHyFUYh2FNAaG2w9wzcrLL/story.html
See also NY Times: "Harvard Searched E-Mails for Source of Media Leaks"
midnight
(26,624 posts)naaman fletcher
(7,362 posts)Their employers went through their company email. Happens every day all across this country. Harvard Deans just think that they are special.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)they own it, they can do anything they want with it, and everyone has to take a yearly test that shows they know this. Using company email for anything you expect to be confidential is never a good plan and all employees are supposed to know that.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)They control the servers.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)I only send work related things to work email. EVERYTHING goes through personal.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)and that I assume they have access is precisely why I only use my work email for work related matters.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)again. . .use work for work and personal for personal.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)In fact, the admins should not be able to access your email password -- just all your mail files.