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Headline on the Gartner front page... gartnerportal.ais.msu.edu Short and non-technical peice which had me reaching for a dictionary :-O -Tom Doug Nelson wrote: > 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 > >