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Emails should be private!

13Gigatons

13Gigatons

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/superintendent-sex-emails-769341

Since no crime was alleged, emails should remain private. This was completely unnecessary.


JUNE 4--A series of sexually explicit e-mails sent by the superintendent of the Des Moines, Iowa public schools triggered her abrupt resignation last month, and subsequently cost the 57-year-old educator her new post atop the Omaha, Nebraska school system.
The correspondence exchanged by Nancy Sebring and a man with whom she was having an extramarital affair were sent via her school e-mail account, a violation of the system’s Internet-use guidelines. Many of Sebring’s racy e-mails were sent during the workday (and were sent/received on devices owned by the Des Moines school district).

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13Gigatons said:
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The correspondence exchanged by Nancy Sebring and a man with whom she was having an extramarital affair were sent via her school e-mail account, a violation of the system’s Internet-use guidelines. Many of Sebring’s racy e-mails were sent during the workday (and were sent/received on devices owned by the Des Moines school district).
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Superintendent of Schools should be smarter. Bet there is an "Agreement" above her login everytime she logged into her division workstation notifying her that she was subect to monitoring and had no expectation of privacy along with a link to her division's Acceptible Use Policy most likely containing her name and the school board as the governing authorities.
 
get a personal smart phone and use it however you want. Is there really an expectation of privacy when using work email?
 
If using your own device on your own network, absolutely. While using a work device and/or on a work network, absolutely no reason to expect privacy, IMO.

At least she didn't post the stuff on Facebook like some idiots that become shocked when "private" info becomes public very fast when it is put on the internet.
 
I guess that's a $275,000+ lesson to be taught. Don't send raunchy emails on your public employers dime/mail systems. Common sense fail.
 
Captain Howdy said:
If using your own device on your own network, absolutely. While using a work device and/or on a work network, absolutely no reason to expect privacy, IMO.

At least she didn't post the stuff on Facebook like some idiots that become shocked when "private" info becomes public very fast when it is put on the internet.
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No. I would bet that her school district's AUP includes something along the lines of it being prohibited to connect any device to the network without prior authorization and any such connection is subject to all provisions of the AUP.
 
vi edit said:
I guess that's a $275,000+ lesson to be taught. Don't send raunchy emails on your public employers dime/mail systems. Common sense fail.
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yeah. when having a affair and you want to send dirty emails. don't do it on a work system that is monitored. I mean holly fuck people how is this a problem? lol
 
I wonder what kind of person it was who would actually report her... it's not hurting anyone even if it does "break rules".
 
She works for the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

I honestly think she should reimburse the taxpayers for time spent sending the emails. This is ridiculous, people have such entitlement issues when it pertains to 'work' devices.

It's not your email, it's not your phone, it's not your computer. Anything you do on it is the property and business of your employer.
 
calvinbiss said:
13Gigatons said:
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The correspondence exchanged by Nancy Sebring and a man with whom she was having an extramarital affair were sent via her school e-mail account, a violation of the system’s Internet-use guidelines. Many of Sebring’s racy e-mails were sent during the workday (and were sent/received on devices owned by the Des Moines school district).
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Pretty much.

I wonder if it would play out differently if she was using her personal device (laptop or smartphone) and her personal e-mail account, but the school wifi.

MotionMan
 
Stupid to use work her email, but I know why she did it. Hubby probably had access to any personal e-mails, and it may have seemed like too much trouble to set up a new account for nothing but communicating with him when she was (incorrectly) sure that no-one really read e-mails sent from her work account.
 
SpatiallyAware said:
She works for the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

I honestly think she should reimburse the taxpayers for time spent sending the emails. This is ridiculous, people have such entitlement issues when it pertains to 'work' devices.

It's not your email, it's not your phone, it's not your computer. Anything you do on it is the property and business of your employer.
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Not only that but she is the one that would fire a teacher caught violating the same AUP she is violating.
 
vi edit said:
I guess that's a $275,000+ lesson to be taught. Don't send raunchy emails on your public employers dime/mail systems. Common sense fail.
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Not just public employee either, I've seen some really nasty situations come up with VPs and directors who thought their work phone was 'private'.


I think a lot of people would be surprised at how closely their crap is being watched while at work.
 
MotionMan said:
Pretty much.

I wonder if it would play out differently if she was using her personal device (laptop or smartphone) and her personal e-mail account, but the school wifi.

MotionMan
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Most WIFI connections like that are still behind the proxies and content filtering and make you click on an Accept of the AUP to connect to them.
 
SpatiallyAware said:
She works for the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

I honestly think she should reimburse the taxpayers for time spent sending the emails. This is ridiculous, people have such entitlement issues when it pertains to 'work' devices.

It's not your email, it's not your phone, it's not your computer. Anything you do on it is the property and business of your employer.
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It's quite pervasive too, the personal use of corporate devices/networks.
Just look at all the IT stories of what is found in company-owned laptops, and how much is discovered when users work away from the office using VPNs and whatnot.
 
vi edit said:
I guess that's a $275,000+ lesson to be taught. Don't send raunchy emails on your public employers dime/mail systems. Common sense fail.
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School administrator gets $275K a year while the governor (at least a few years ago) was making a little over $100K.

Looks the school administrators are robbing the tax payers blind just like in California. And if California is any example, they are not near smart enough to justify it. No wonder she was caught.

-KeithP
 
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