[CC] Campus computer confiscated from professor @ Virginia Tech

[George(s) Lessard]

[Excerpt]

Some faculty members at Virginia Tech say they're worried about their privacy 
and their intellectual-property rights following an incident last week in which 
campus police officers seized a professor's computer to search it for an e-mail 
message about a vandalism incident...

... "Going by the logic of those cops, the university can confiscate basically 
any documents stored in our offices (as we use office paper), confidential 
letters (on official letter pads) and e-mail messages (university software, 
again), and tap into our phone messages (on the phone machines) as well: 
without any specific formal legal mandate or explanation or prior notice or 
warrant."

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Folks,

Here's an article from today's Chronicle detailing a truly disturbing
development.  Martha McCaughey is an associate professor and director of
women's studies at Virginia Tech.  (Full disclosure: She's also a good
friend of mine and someone whose work has influenced me.)

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002040901t.htm

david silver
http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver/

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