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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.124830.10043@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
- Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <b+arapg@dixie.com> <1992Dec17.160222.1313@colorado.edu> <1992Dec17.181217.6001@colorado.edu> <80ar1ql@dixie.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:48:30 GMT
- Lines: 179
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- bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles) writes:
-
- [...]
- >BTW, the University of Colorado requires a "computing fee" be paid by the
- >students, so the students are directly paying for the use of such resources;
- >it isn't simply provided out of the philanthropy.
- [...]
-
- jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
-
- [...]
- >I'll bet you pay, oh, maybe a few percentage of what it costs to offer
- >you that service. Spurrious to the issue. What kind of contract
- >did you sign in order to get your access? Those are the rules you live
- >by.
- [...]
-
- I agree that the relationship between a user and system owner is
- contractual. But note that many contract terms are illegal (e.g.
- slavery, murder-for-hire, my-landlord-in-Urbana-not-paying-me-
- interest-on-my-deposit).
-
- At a state school, the constraints on contracts are strong since like
- any organization, a state school must work within its charter (which
- includes the Federal Constitution).
-
- ANNOTATED REFERENCES
-
- (All these documents are available on-line. Access information follows.)
-
- =================
- law/keyishian-v-board-of-regents
- =================
- * Constitution -- Public University -- Keyishian v. Board Of Regents
-
- In this Supreme Court case, the Court said that public universities
- can not infringe on the Constitutionally protected rights of their
- students and employees (specially with regard to loyalty oaths).
-
- =================
- law/constraints.constitutional
- =================
- * Constitution -- Public University -- Constraints
-
- Comments from _A Practical Guide to Legal Issues Affecting College
- Teachers_ by Partrica A. Hollander, D. Parker Young, and Donald D.
- Gehring. (College Administration Publication, 1985). Discusses the
- constitutional constraints on public universities including the
- requires for freedom of expression, freedom against unreasonable
- searches and seizures, due process, specific rules.
-
- =================
- law/mass-student-searches
- =================
- * Privacy -- Mass Students Searches
-
- An excerpt from The ACLU Handbook: _The Rights of Students_, stating that
- "there must a reasonable suspicion directed specifically at each student
- before a school official can search students."
-
- =================
- law/ecpa.1986.godwin
- =================
- * Privacy -- E-mail -- ECPA - University Site
-
- Mike Godwin, legal staff for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- says that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) could be
- reasonably construed to protect university email.
-
- =================
- law/new-jersey-v-tlo
- =================
- * Privacy -- High School Students -- New Jersey v. TLO
-
- Summary of laws protecting high school students from unreasonable
- searches.
-
- =================
- law/ferpa
- =================
- * Privacy -- School Records -- FERPA -- Excerpts
-
- Excerpts from _College and University Student Records: A Legal
- Compendium_, Edited by Joan E. Van Tol, 1989. Details the Family
- Education Rights and Privacy Act's (Buckley Amendment's) provisions on
- directory information.
-
- =================
- law/constitution.us
- =================
- * Constitution -- U.S. -- Full Text
-
- The Constitution of the United States
-
- =================
- faq/email.privacy
- =================
- * Email -- Privacy
-
- q: Can (should) my university monitor my email?
-
- a: Ethically (and perhaps legally) email communications should have
- ...
-
- =================
- faq/email.policies
- =================
- * Email -- Policies
-
- q: Do any universities treat email and computer files as private?
-
- a: Yes, many universities treat email and computer files as private.
- ...
-
- =================
- faq/media.control
- =================
- * University Control of Media
-
- q: Since freedom of the press belongs to those who own presses, a
- public university can do anything it wants with the media that it
- owns, right?
-
- a: No. Like any organization, the government must work within its
- ...
-
- =================
- caf
- =================
- * About the CAF mailing lists (and newsgroups)
-
- A description of the comp-academic-freedom-talk mailing list. It is a
- free-forum for the discussion of questions such as: How should general
- principles of academic freedom (such as freedom of expression, freedom
- to read, due process, and privacy) be applied to university computers
- and networks? How are these principles actually being applied? How can
- the principles of academic freedom as applied to computers and
- networks be defended?
-
- =================
- =================
-
- If you have gopher, you can browse the CAF archive with the command
- gopher gopher.eff.org
-
- These document(s) are also available by anonymous ftp (the preferred
- method) and by email. To get the file(s) via ftp, do an anonymous ftp
- to ftp.eff.org (192.88.144.4), and get file(s):
-
- pub/academic/law/keyishian-v-board-of-regents
- pub/academic/law/constraints.constitutional
- pub/academic/law/mass-student-searches
- pub/academic/law/ecpa.1986.godwin
- pub/academic/law/new-jersey-v-tlo
- pub/academic/law/ferpa
- pub/academic/law/constitution.us
- pub/academic/faq/email.privacy
- pub/academic/faq/email.policies
- pub/academic/faq/media.control
- pub/academic/caf
-
- To get the file(s) by email, send email to archive-server@eff.org.
- Include the line(s) (be sure to include the space before the file
- name):
-
- send acad-freedom/law keyishian-v-board-of-regents
- send acad-freedom/law constraints.constitutional
- send acad-freedom/law mass-student-searches
- send acad-freedom/law ecpa.1986.godwin
- send acad-freedom/law new-jersey-v-tlo
- send acad-freedom/law ferpa
- send acad-freedom/law constitution.us
- send acad-freedom/faq email.privacy
- send acad-freedom/faq email.policies
- send acad-freedom/faq media.control
- send acad-freedom caf
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
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