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DDD Letter #67 |
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Reformatted: August 25, 1997
With the Fall semester upon us, it's a good time to remind everyone of privacy concerns. Many offices have access to student and staff information including social security numbers, birth dates, home addresses, etc. With much of this information resident on individual workstations and/or in files to which many of us have access, there is the possibility to mishandle private information. Over the past few weeks, I have been made aware of a few pieces of output containing sensitive information that did not reach their appropriate destinations. For this reason, I would like to emphasize the following.
If you fail to use one of these options, your output will be placed in the public bins for individual pickup. These bins are not secure. Anyone could take and/or copy the output which is located in public bins. Additionally, the Computer Center periodically discards output which has been sitting in these public bins. Output is typically discarded when it is one or two weeks old. Much of this discarded output is used for scratch paper by University people. Clearly, we cannot have private, sensitive information compromised in this manner.