Working for Computing and Communications Client Services at the Universiy of Washington, going into and looking at peoples accounts is an everyday type thing. Sometime people have some serious issues and when they email us asking for help sometimes it is something that can be easily fixed by us in two seconds, and rather than having to write a detailed description of what they should do we fix it for them. Often that entials going and messing around with their email inboxes, webpage files, etc. We are pretty unrestricted in what we can look at. Mind you we aren't allowed to do much of anything, unless we are undoing something we did.
At UW, where you can do just about anything as a student(set up ftp servers in your dorm room, free dial-up ISP access, have streaming media on personal webpages) with a huge amount of resources (including having a reliable cross campus 100Mpbs connection), I couldn't find anywhere in its policies where it said it owned any email or files. But it did say it had the right to access, monitor and take to court any information that you have.
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Working for Computing and Communications Client Services at the Universiy of Washington, going into and looking at peoples accounts is an everyday type thing. Sometime people have some serious issues and when they email us asking for help sometimes it is something that can be easily fixed by us in two seconds, and rather than having to write a detailed description of what they should do we fix it for them. Often that entials going and messing around with their email inboxes, webpage files, etc. We are pretty unrestricted in what we can look at. Mind you we aren't allowed to do much of anything, unless we are undoing something we did.
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At UW, where you can do just about anything as a student(set up ftp servers in your dorm room, free dial-up ISP access, have streaming media on personal webpages) with a huge amount of resources (including having a reliable cross campus 100Mpbs connection), I couldn't find anywhere in its policies where it said it owned any email or files. But it did say it had the right to access, monitor and take to court any information that you have.
http://www.washington.edu/computing/rules/guideli