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From: nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Posting grades
Message-ID: <9288@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 88 02:32:13 GMT
References: <5129@bsu-cs.UUCP> <4302@teklds.CAE.TEK.COM> <6125@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <5734@polya.Stanford.EDU> <9248@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <14636@cisunx.UUCP>
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In article <14636@cisunx.UUCP> jjc@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Jeffrey James Bryan Carpenter) writes:
|In article <9248@ihlpb.ATT.COM> nevin1@ihlpb.UUCP (55528-Liber,N.J.) writes:
| >This still may not be legal.  Since sysadmins also have access to these
| >accounts, and many of them at universities are students, you may still
| >be violating the privacy act.

|That same system administrator could probably also see the report
|cards printing out on the line printer.

I *hope* the sysadmin for your grade reporting machine is *not* a
student at that university.  If it is, you have many more security
problems than need be discussed here.

|I doubt email would violate the privacy act.

The privacy act doesn't stop the information from being disclosed.  Who
is prepared to sue over disclosure of grades?
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NEVIN ":-)" LIBER  AT&T Bell Laboratories  nevin1@ihlpb.ATT.COM  (312) 979-4751