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Re: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:21:56 -0400
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:36:23 EDT, Dude VanWinkle said:
On 6/20/06, Mary Landesman <mlande () bellsouth net> wrote:This is pretty disturbing - especially since it affects *prospective* students. If you apply and get accepted, even if you don't enroll, your data gets sent over. It would be slightly more palatable if it impacted only those students who (a) elected to enroll and (b) had been explicitly informed of the intended disclosure. Virginia: Apply at your own risk.Yeah Valdis ;-)
Wasn't *my* idea. In fact, one of the reasons that VT went the route of becoming a "charter university" (i.e. a much more autonomous entity than most state agencies) was because we don't trust the crew at VITA (Virginia IT Agency) to understand IT. We *finally* were able to stop sending them payroll data every 2 weeks. On tape. The 10.5" reel-to-reel variety. Within the past 6 months. And VITA is the agency that all this data would probably be submitted to....
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- Re: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data Mary Landesman (Jun 20)
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- Re: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 21)
- Re: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data Dude VanWinkle (Jun 20)
- Re: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data Blanchard_Michael (Jun 20)
- Re: [privacy] Police to Get Access to Student Data Mary Landesman (Jun 20)