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March 20, 2006
Amusing post by Ed Felten at Freedom to Tinker. Apparently, some Princeton kids got in trouble, and were displeased.
The controversy started with a story in the Daily Princetonian revealing that Public Safety had used Facebook in two investigations. In one case, a student’s friend posted a photo of the student that was taken during a party in the student’s room. The photo reportedly showed the student hosting a dorm-room party where alcohol was served, which is a violation of campus rules. In another case, there was a group of students who liked to climb up the sides of buildings on campus. They had set up a building-climbers’ group on Facebook, and Public Safety reportedly used the group to identify the group’s members, so as to have Serious Discussions with them.Some students reacted with outrage, seeing this as an invasion of privacy and an unfair tactic by Public Safety.
Honestly, who are these kids? An unfair tactic? That completely blows my mind.
i have a cousin who is the dean of students at a prep school, and she says that they've banned the use of campus computer facilities for facebook.
my favorite part of that article, though, is that the public safety officers just wanted to have "Serious Discussions" with the students.
http://students.ncsu.edu/senate/bills.php?lid=79&s=05
Apparently many students where astonished that posting a picture of themselves violating housing rules on a public site could get them in trouble. Go figure.
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