30 Mar
2006
30 Mar
'06
11:14 p.m.
Employees roaming is interesting. Employers watching is worrisome. An increasing number of colleagues (at my institution and elsewhere) have expressed concerns that their chairs, deans, and/or provosts have gotten access to their campus-based mail accounts, including citing specific phrases that they believed they had used only in private communications. Anyone have a sense of how likely (or common) that is (in academia or anywhere)?
Indiana has a ton of sunshine laws. Nothing sent to an indiana.edu mail account is really 'private' - rather, things are eminently subpoena-able. --e