A leak to the press led Harvard College and the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences to search private email accounts of resident deans. (According to the Harvard College website, there is one resident dean in each "House", and s/he "contributes to the House as a scholar and participates fully in the life of the community.")
The Deans of FAS and Harvard College state that "the specific document made public may be deemed by some as not particularly consequential." Nevertheless, they say, the public disclosure "led to concerns that other information – especially student information we have a duty to protect as private – was at risk." A subject line search of all resident deans' private emails was authorized; the source of the leak was found; the leak was judged to be inadvertant.
Draconian over-reaction? Breach of privacy? Right-thinking concern for students?
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