On Mar 9 2007, Richard Stevens wrote:
Why would the gov't be interested in electronic forms of student papers? Well, considering that Homeland Security has in the past stated a focus on incoming exchange student programs (thereby granting student visas) as a high-level security threat for allowing potential terrorists to enter the country, I'd say this desired access is not beyond the realm of interest to our government.
Although I think this is a good point, everything we know about Turnitin indicates that they are storing a hash of the paper, rather than the full paper itself. I can see that the feds might well be interested in the topics of certain student papers, but I am not at all certain that the content can be reconstructed from what could be subpeoned or NSL'd. DLB -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 ********************************** voice: 612-626-8726 fax: 612-625-2011 bits: burkx006@umn.edu