In an opinion piece for the Daily Bruin, Avni Nijhawan says UCLA's online campus directory provides a false sense of security about its privacy settings. The publicly accessible directory, created through the school's privacy policies, allocates some of the information deemed public by federal law, including an "unprecedented amount of 'personally identifiable information,'" Nijhawan writes, such as phone numbers and home and e-mail addresses of 33,000 students. "The potential for misuse seems to outweigh the necessity of public access to such information," said Nijhawan, proposing that students be removed from the database altogether.
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