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...because the numbers are printed on every affiliate’s ID card and because they must be shared with others for a variety of mundane purposes, in practice, IDs fall far short of this...
...Crimson investigation in January found that anyone with an internet connection could obtain the University Health Services prescription drug histories of any Harvard affiliate. The Crimson also found that this loophole allowed anyone with an internet connection to find the ID number of any Harvard affiliate as well as contact information for students whose enrollment status the University is bound by law to keep secret...
...ID INSECURITY
...Crimson’s January investigation found that Harvard affiliates’ prescription records could be accessed with only a Harvard ID number and name, which are both widely available pieces of information...
While the now-deactivated iCommons polling tool made this possible by generating names and ID numbers for any University affiliate, a number of groups of students and staff are able to match up ID numbers and names anyway...