Privacy in the workplace

Ron Torrella torrella@umich.edu
Wed Sep 16 07:55 MDT 1998


On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, michael wathen wrote:

> My supervisor an assistant dean for our school has formally requested
> that everyone in her charge deliver to her by a certain date their
> respective email usernames and passwords.  She says they will be kept in
> a secure place and used only in the event of an emergency.  I responded
[snip]
So, if UC's policy is that you must change your password every so often,
does that mean you have to send in the new password every time it
changes??

> for the information.  She is insisting that I must comply with her
> wishes and says that everything that comes through the server at the
> university is univeristy property.

"Hogwash," I'd say. "Let's see that in writing in the form of University
Policy."

> I have to admit I am stunned!  What do you guys think.

Flabbergasted!

Ron Torrella, RPT
Piano Technician
University of Michigan
School of Music



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