[ NNSquad ] Harvard secretly searched e-mails

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Harvard secretly searched e-mails 

http://j.mp/Y3777f  (Boston Globe)

   "Harvard University central administrators secretly searched the e-mail
    accounts of 16 resident deans last fall, looking for a leak to the
    media about the school's sprawling cheating case, according to several
    Harvard officials interviewed by the Globe.  The resident deans sit on
    Harvard's Administrative Board, the committee charged with handling
    the cheating case. They were not warned that administrators planned to
    access their accounts, and only one was told of the search shortly
    afterward.  The dean who was informed had forwarded a confidential
    Administrative Board message to a student he was advising, not
    realizing it would ultimately make its way to the Harvard Crimson and
    the Globe and fuel the campus controversy over the cheating scandal."

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