<p>"Harvard has finally retained some adult legal supervision to sort out its cheating-and-e-mail-snooping fiasco. Thats the good news."</p>
<p>Sort of a misleading headline. I’m sort of surprised that the deans at Harvard assumed that email sent on the Harvard server were private. I don’t know anyone who has an expectation of privacy for work e-mails. As for the cheating scandal, yes it was inexcusable. I believe Harvard dealt with in an appropriate manner.</p>
<p>But Businessweek knows nothing gets hits like putting “Harvard” and “cheating” in the headline</p>
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<p>Right. Every employer that I’m aware of makes it perfectly clear that the company e-mail system is its property and it can search, read, retain, copy, or delete any e-mails on the system that it sees fit. Unless the school administration had previously and explicitly promised them otherwise, the Harvard profs were either foolish or naive or both to have an expectation of privacy when using the school’s IT system…</p>
<p>"But Businessweek knows nothing gets hits like putting “Harvard” and “cheating” in the headline "</p>
<p>The writer is putting to good use what he learnt at Harvard.</p>
<p>“Every employer that I’m aware of makes it perfectly clear that the company e-mail system is its property and it can search, read, retain, copy, or delete any e-mails on the system that it sees fit.”</p>
<p>Why don’t they say that and close the issue. Why have a task force.</p>
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<p>I don’t know why. Sometimes Harvard is its own worst enemy.</p>
<p>The academic model, like the government model, leads to things called “task forces.” :rolleyes:</p>