Re: Privacy and google's cache.

[Morrow Long <morrow.long () YALE EDU>]

Don't forget about archive.org (AKA the WayBack machine),
as well as the caches on search engines and archiving sites
(ask.com, bing.com, Yahoo! Search and others)

- Morrow

On Oct 28, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Tracy Mitrano wrote:

> You may want to explore these sites, for starters, Pete.  Best, Tracy
>
>
> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156412
>
> https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&passive=true&nui=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fremovals%3Fhl%3Dzh&followup=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fwebmasters%2Ftools%2Fremovals%3Fhl%3Dzh&ltmpl=urlremoval&hl=en
>
> On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Pete Hickey wrote:
>
> > We just had an interesting case here.  Interesting with Ontario's
> > law,
> > at least.
> >
> > For those who are not very young, you will remember when student's
> > privacy was not an issue.  Graduating classes would have their names
> > and pictures on the wall, class lists posted everywhere..  When I
> > taught,
> > I used to post marks on my door, as did most other profs.
> >
> > Then came the net.  So people started posting marks on the net.  Some
> > people did it from their personal (home) ISP account.  These would be
> > left up for a while, then removed.
> >
> > But they were removed after google had sucked them up and cached
> > them.
> >
> > Then privacy started becoming more of a concern and privacy laws were
> > enacted.
> >
> > And people stopped doing that.
> >
> > But they stayed in google's cache.
> >
> > We have at least one issue of a 6 year old class list (names, marks)
> > which is still in google's cache.  Fortunately in this case the
> > proff is still around and still has the same ISP account.
> >
> > But think of the potential problems.
> >
> > How much and what does google have?  Not easy to search for something
> > like that.
> >
> > How many profs have done this?  While full time proffs tend to use
> > University resources, part time profs often used their own.
> >
> > The potential ugliness of having something similar when the former
> > prof is dead, changed ISPs, left with very bad feelings, etc.
> > Getting
> > something our of google's cache in that case could just be ubly.
> >
> > Note:  I'm not interested in the legality/liability of someone doing
> > something that was legal, at the time.  I'm more interested in having
> > the right thing done now.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pete Hickey
> > The University of Ottawa               lbh ner byq vs lbh erzrzore
> > ebg13
> > Ottawa, Ontario
> > Canada                                   naq n trrx vs lbh
> > qrpelcgrq vg.
>
> Tracy Mitrano, Ph.D., J.D.
> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Information Science
> Director of IT Policy, Office of Information Technologies
> 118A CCC
> Garden Avenue
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, N.Y 14853
> 607-254-3584
> http://www.cit.cornell.edu/policies/

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