Chancellor Wise Forced To Release Emails From Personal Account
The Chicago Tribune reports today that UIUC was forced to release 1100 pages of emails from Chancellor Wise, many of them from her personal email account, many of them related to the Steven Salaita case. According to a statement from UIUC:
A desire to maintain confidentiality on certain sensitive University-related topics was one reason personal email accounts were used to communicate about these topics. Some emails suggested that individuals were encouraged to use personal email accounts for communicating on such topics.
The statement may be referring to this email from Wise, on September 18, 2014.
Equally interesting is this one from July 24, 2014. Note that statement by Wise re “after the decision to hire him and after his acceptance of our offer.”
You can read the emails related to the Salaita case here.
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9 Comments
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Magid Shihade
The communications over the phone are next?
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#nohillary excuse.It would just be so much trouble to use 2 accounts.
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The magic words every law student learns in Contracts: “Offer” and “Acceptance.”
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Exactly
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I know nothing about computers, but… How could these people possibly believe that their emails are launched into oblivion by clicking “delete”?
A forensic team worked through emails the Zuck sent ~7 years prior from his Harvard email account in response to a 2010 lawsuit.
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Is the principle involved any different from legal discovery in the purely paper age? Could Wise have been forced to release “personal” correspondence relevant to her official actions if not written at her office or on official letterhead before email?
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“…deleting after sending”
Crossposted to The Smoking Gun? Or ‘Puters for Idiots?
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“Twitters” and capitalized too — this Phyllis character clearly has a firm grasp of the social media platform she fired someone over.
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This is a great example of the techno-idiocy of so-called smart people
” I am deleting after sending..” as if it only exists on the sending computer (probably in the cloud anyway) rather than every where else.