Today it’s chilly :). Almost cold. Spitting cold rain from an overcast sky, stiff breezes… A day to cherish next Spring, when I start to once again think of “sweaty” as my body’s constant condition.
In other news, I just learned of something kind of freaky. A faculty member is concerned (read: really really vocally upset) about the university’s decision to allow our college (Social & Behavioral Sciences) to partner up with a coalition of U.S. intelligence services (CIA, FBI, NSA, and about a dozen others). So, as part of his advocacy efforts, this faculty member requested all the personal emails of the college Dean.
And the university handed them over.
He read through emails about the Dean’s personal reaction to the death of his mother, as well as, no doubt, details about lunch meetings and when he was going to pick up his dry cleaning.
So… for exactly how many years does the IT department archive all my emails? Under what conditions does it hand them out to anyone who asks for them? I mean, I’m not *that* naive; I know that I have a reduced (or perhaps zero) expectation that emails using university computers and servers and email systems can be kept from the prying eyes of university administration, should they choose to look at them. But I guess I never imagined them just coughing up my archived emails going back to who-knows-when, just because another faculty member decides he or she wants to take a look.
I’m now frantically trying to remember whether I’ve written any really steamy emails to Alex, using my university account… And what about web usage? I know they can (and probably do) cache a certain amount of information about my web-surfing habits, etc. (that’s why I am constantly telling myself to stay away from the Lord of the Rings porn websites…) But do they cache things like the text I’m entering in this online LJ-update form?
I have to say I’m a little freaked.
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