A Harvard University taskforce will hold two meetings this month to collect feedback from students, faculty and staff on the school’s e-mail privacy policies, Boston.com reports. The move comes after fallout from revelations earlier this year that school administration officials covertly searched approximately 14,000 e-mails to find the leak that led to a cheating scandal. In addition to the two meetings, the taskforce has launched a discussion blog and has met several times over the summer to define “underlying principles and questions that it hopes to discuss with the community in the coming months,” according to a university statement, which added, “Among the principles: transparency about the realities of technology, the importance of fostering trust in the Harvard community and respect for the privacy interests necessary to ensure academic inquiry.”
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