Re: SOP for Releasing Private Data Generated by Deceased Student?

[Eva Lorenz <vapensiere () GMAIL COM>]

Please contact me offline and I can share the handful of cases I was
involved in and how they were handled

Eva

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 10:16 AM Bryce Cunningham <
bcunningham () colleges-fenway org> wrote:

> At the institutions I serve, we’ve had a few tragic cases of deceased
> students where the parents or other family requested access to the
> deceased’s emails, laptop contents, or both. If your institution has a
> request form or policy for this situation I’d appreciate you sharing it
> since I’ve been asked if we can establish a procedure that handles such
> requests in order to reduce our response time and improve consistency.  My
> question is only about policy and SOP, **not** the legal question of
> whether or not the data should be released (that is determined by whether
> the deceased has a Will covering their digital legacy).
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> Bryce Cunningham, MS, CISM, CISSP
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> Information Security Officer
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> Colleges of the Fenway:
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> Mass College of Art and Design &
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> Wentworth Institute of Technology
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> *C: *617-396-7052
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