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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 -- Doug Nelson, Network Manager | [log in to unmask] Academic Computing and Network Services | Ph: (517) 353-2980 Michigan State University | http://www.msu.edu/~nelson/