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Recommend changing students ID numbers?


From: Jared Evans <jared.evans () GALLAUDET EDU>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:31:43 -0400

I would like to poll the other officers on this list and see if the below
scenario warrants changing the student ID numbers:

A file containing a list of new incoming students' names, email addresses,
and their student ID numbers was recently, by accident, emailed to all the
residents of a dorm building.

The student ID numbers can be seen on the student cards.  The above
information isn't confidential, but with student ID numbers aggregated
together, would not be ideal.

Does this event warrant making the suggestion that all the students
mentioned in the file should have their student ID number changed?

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Jared Evans
Information Security Officer
Gallaudet Technology Services
Gallaudet University
jared.evans () gallaudet edu

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