From the good-for-them dept.:
Katie Kilmartin reports:
The change became effective Oct. 31. Privacy concerns from students and campus stakeholders prompted the change, said Kate Hash, communications manager for ITS.
“It was really a coalescing of a lot of people facing the same question, this healthy question, at the exact same time,” Hash said. “We were hearing from a variety of stakeholders and really felt it was time to take action on it.”
Holly Benton, interim chief privacy officer for ITS, worked on the process of altering the privacy settings for the directory, a change that is part of a broader privacy initiative at the University.
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