On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:02:47PM -0500, Ed Symanzik wrote:
> Bosman, Don wrote:
> > For the University, which is
> > required to comply with laws like the Health Insurance Portability and
> > Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy
> > Act (FERPA), the security risk of having data on public servers is too
> > great.
>
> Perhaps the U should ban HIPAA and FERPA data from desktops.
Like it or not, many of us work with sensitive data on a regular basis,
and it would be difficult to enforce a policy banning such data from
desktops (and don't forget laptops and portable storage devices!).
Google Desktop, and especially its new server-based document indexing feature,
is certainly problematic. It seems to be worth some level of an educational
campaign, at least here within the MSUNAG community.
Doug
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