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Accidental personal information release

  • 11-02-2011 07:41PM
    #1
    cr0bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39 ✭


    I heard on the grapevine that in an attachment to an email to 2nd year engineering students about a lecture hall change, was a complete list of names, addresses, contact numbers, email addresses and student IDs for all 1st year engineering students.

    The dean sent an email out about it, and there's some group now been set up to review procedures regarding routine communication with students.

    I'd say just double-check the attachment before clicking send!


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  • #2
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,055 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    cr0bar wrote: »
    and there's some group now been set up to review procedures regarding routine communication with students.

    Another useless admin group - just what the college needs.


  • #3
    joeKel73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭joeKel73


    I'm 1st year in a masters program in the IT Department (Eng Faculty) and got the email to say my details were on the attachment. Not impressed.

    I don't see the point of the group though - they going to come around an approve every attachment before sending? :rolleyes:

    Also I didn't realise that came from the Dean until you said. I thought Pádraic O Donoghue was still dean, hadn't heard of Gerry Lyons getting the job. News to me!


  • #4
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,105 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    Something similar happened in my masters last year, altho not as extreme. Our class had a lot of friction, and was quite competitive and many people ket their results and grades to themselves or shared in their small groups. One lecturer emailed the whole class the list of everyones names, correlating student number and results for a number of modules which really pis$ed people off.


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