--- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:57:04 -0500 From: Brian Ristuccia <brian@private> To: declan@private Subject: Personal Student Information on NYU Website (AGAIN!) (Declan, please feel free to post this message to your politech mailing list if you find it may interest the subscribers). On January 20, there was a politech posting about the personal information about over 1800 NYU students being posted on NYU's public website for over two years. Well, it turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. The NYU student-run Washington Square News is reporting on additional privacy incidents where personal information about thousands of students, alumni, and faculty has been out in the open in several different places on NYU's public website. See http://www.washingtonsquarenews.com/news/campus/6627.html Last Friday, a second site that listed the personal information of at least 2,100 students, alumni and professors was taken off-line. [...] McMillan said that NYU has in fact been searching over the past few weeks for sensitive data hosted on NYU's server, and the university already shut down between three and six sites. There's also an interesting editorial titled "NYU, Admit your mistake" at http://www.washingtonsquarenews.com/opinion/editorial/6632.html which criticizes the university's lack of candor in the face of these sorts of problems. The previous issue with the 1800+ intermural athletes is a great example: NYU's notification came only after much delay and was far from forthright in explaining what had happened. For some background information, see: http://politechbot.com/pipermail/politech/2004-January/000328.html http://osiris.978.org/~brianr/nyu-publication/ -- Brian Ristuccia brian@private _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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