Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
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Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#2Glad to see that she's being forced to step down after such an egregious invasion of privacy.
But that's just a school. The much more important case is whether anyone in the federal government gets punished when they do the same thing without a warrant. So far, it doesn't look like it.
Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#3Glad to see that she's being forced to step down after such an egregious invasion of privacy. But that's just a school. The much more important case is whether anyone in the federal government gets punished when they do the same thing without a warrant. So far, it doesn't look like it.
Ironically in both cases it was not about "finding the criminal" but about finding out who leaked a story to the press. Seems like transparency is not really popular these days.
Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#4Glad to see that she's being forced to step down after such an egregious invasion of privacy. But that's just a school. The much more important case is whether anyone in the federal government gets punished when they do the same thing without a warrant. So far, it doesn't look like it.
Ironically in both cases it was not about "finding the criminal" but about finding out who leaked a story to the press. Seems like transparency is not really popular these days.
Didn't you hear? We have "the most transparent government in history"!
Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#5I find it Ironic that the dean at Harvard has the fortitude to step down when he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees (and yes I recognize that working for someone is not the same as being a citizen of a country), yet our elected leaders, when caught authorizing far more heinous eavesdropping, do nothing, not even so much as apologizing.
Whereas an institution MIGHT be able to justify such egregious violations of privacy, a government can have no such moral quandaries because of the exacting detail of our laws; and yet, here we are.
Steal a little and they call you a thief. Steal a lot and they call you King.
Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#6I find it Ironic that the dean at Harvard has the fortitude to step down when he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees (and yes I recognize that working for someone is not the same as being a citizen of a country), yet our elected leaders, when caught authorizing far more heinous eavesdropping, do nothing, not even so much as apologizing. Whereas an institution MIGHT be ab…
Searches of e-mails are not clearly unconstitutional under our laws.
Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#7Glad to see that she's being forced to step down after such an egregious invasion of privacy. But that's just a school. The much more important case is whether anyone in the federal government gets punished when they do the same thing without a warrant. So far, it doesn't look like it.
The Dean of Harvard is stepping down not because there is anything illegal about her searching through the e-mails of faculty (your employer has every right to search your work e-mail), but because it was in bad taste in an academic institution which made the Dean ineffective as a figurehead. Similarly, there is nothing definitively illegal about the federal government asking Google to voluntarily hand over your e-mails. It is at best in bad taste.
Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#8I find it Ironic that the dean at Harvard has the fortitude to step down when he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees (and yes I recognize that working for someone is not the same as being a citizen of a country), yet our elected leaders, when caught authorizing far more heinous eavesdropping, do nothing, not even so much as apologizing. Whereas an institution MIGHT be ab…
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Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#9I find it Ironic that the dean at Harvard has the fortitude to step down when he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees (and yes I recognize that working for someone is not the same as being a citizen of a country), yet our elected leaders, when caught authorizing far more heinous eavesdropping, do nothing, not even so much as apologizing. Whereas an institution MIGHT be ab…
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Re: Harvard College dean steps down (in wake of authorizing e-mail searches)
#10I find it Ironic that the dean at Harvard has the fortitude to step down when he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees (and yes I recognize that working for someone is not the same as being a citizen of a country), yet our elected leaders, when caught authorizing far more heinous eavesdropping, do nothing, not even so much as apologizing. Whereas an institution MIGHT be ab…
"he's caught red-handed violating the civil and constitutional rights of his employees"
Dean Hammonds is a woman.