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Even free municipal wi-fi has one price that some find too steep: loss of privacy. Users aren't always comfortable knowing a government-run operation can track their searches for advertising or limit their access to websites. Culver City, Calif., and Adel, Ga., use software to prevent people from surfing porn and downloading copyrighted material. "I made a decision we shouldn't be spending taxpayer dollars on this," says John Richo, Culver City's information-technology director. Users must agree to "limited" Internet access and waive First Amendment claims arising from the city's decision to block sites. Civil...
...student participation is concerned, a change in incentives should produce a higher rate of involvement. Specifically, the reward for filling out CUE evaluations should not be relief from saccharine e-mail reminders, or even extra funding for one’s House or Yard, but rather access to CUE results the following year. It’s a simple quid pro quo: spend the twenty minutes required to complete your CUE evaluations each semester, and you’ll get to use the CUE guide. Students who decline to participate will simply see the CUE feature disappear from the online...
...There are two obvious problems with this model for improving participation. The first is a free rider problem; what’s to prevent me, a delinquent student, from skipping out on my CUE evaluations, only to use my roommates’ access later? One hopes, however, that there will be enough of a benefit in avoiding the inconvenience of using a roommate’s computer every time one wants to see the CUE survey to induce students to fill out the online forms...
...return the favor. On those occasions, the scores (4.1 out of 5) and comments (“Boring.” “Average.” “Totally uninspiring.”) that teachers receive are out of sync, and so students should have access to the entirety of that information, to draw their own conclusions about the validity of the reviews...
Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn said that while he couldn’t comment on a specific case because of privacy concerns, the University checks credit histories before hiring employees who would have “access to sensitive financial information or involvement in significant financial transactions...