Re: Risks of using "free" public blogs and/or wikis for class activities

[Brad Judy <Brad.Judy () COLORADO EDU>]

> In particular, what's your exposure if somebody 
> posts something to the blog that's *within* the hosting 
> companies policies (so they refuse to do a takedown), but is 
> a violation of your policies?

You take appropriate university level disciplinary action against the
student.  The same thing we'd do if a student committed an act that
isn't illegal (so the police don't stop it), but violates our policies.
Nathaniel's last message covers campuses taking that type of action.
There was no reason for MySpace/Facebook to take down the content
(didn't violate their rules), but the university decided to take their
own action against the student.  

Brad Judy

ITS - UCB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis Kletnieks [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU] 
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 11:58 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Risks of using "free" public blogs 
> and/or wikis for class activities
>
> * PGP Signed by an unverified key: 06/25/07 at 11:57:41
>
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:24:34 MDT, Brad Judy said:
>
> > When one of our students does something stupid off campus 
> like theft I 
> > don't recall anyone coming after the university because they were 
> > "acting as a student of our school".  (If there is a pattern of 
> > problems, they may ask the university to help find a 
> solution.)  Seems 
> > like you might actually be worse off if you gave them a university 
> > blog account and then they did something bad with it.
>
> Unfortunately, you're arguing the wrong end of the problem.
>
> The issue is where to host a blog set up specifically for 
> "university-related business" (in this case, class-related, 
> apparently).  I'd expect that to be opening up cans of worms 
> if you host it someplace where you can't apply your local 
> policies/etc. In particular, what's your exposure if somebody 
> posts something to the blog that's *within* the hosting 
> companies policies (so they refuse to do a takedown), but is 
> a violation of your policies?
>
> * Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
> * 0xB4D3D7B0 - Unverified