March 21, 2013

Harvard University Historians Protest Email Searches




Some persons suspect that email "scanning" ('text word searching,' Ahem!) is more widespread than this one incident. Have University lawyers and deans lost sight of the idea of expression free from intimidation? Massachusetts state law Ch. 265, Sec. 37 makes it a felony to intimidate a person in the free exercise of a constitutionally protected right.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/3/20/history-letter-email-search/

Letter Cosigned by 32 History Faculty Says Secret Searches Threaten 'Climate of Trust'
By NICHOLAS P. FANDOS,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
March 20, 2013

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