“It’s disturbing because I don’t know what it means about whether they could look at my own e-mail,” said Oliver Hart, an economics professor. “We need to have a discussion and a better understanding of the policy.”
He and other professors said the searches would prompt him to conduct more business through private e-mail accounts outside of Harvard’s reach.
If one activity is being monitored by the Principal, then the Agent switches to another one. The only problem is that Google looks at the other one.
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March 12, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Anon
“Google looks at the other one” (citation needed).
Also, PGP/GPG encryption and/or TrueCrypt.
March 12, 2013 at 6:48 pm
Enrique
Possible Citation? Gmail’s own terms of use, but why would anyone bother to read it?
March 15, 2013 at 9:00 am
Anonymous
At my (public) university, the rule (law?) is that they can look at your non-university email account if you are using it to conduct university business.