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...from the institution? Have you ever been convicted of a misdemeanor, felony, or any other crime?” For a high school senior applying to college, these two questions tucked away at the end of the Common Application under the innocuous label of “Other Required Information?? can be jarring. After all, who wants to admit to an infraction that could torpedo one’s chances of admission to a top college? Harvard College has for years asked potential applicants—and high school admissions counselors writing recommendations—such a question...
...classroom activity I just described is a one-way transfer of information??from the instructor to the students. If education were a mere transfer of information (and a Harvard education the transfer of this information by very accomplished faculty), then we could easily “bottle” a Harvard education and spread it worldwide. Just turn our lectures into flawlessly executed podcasts and let the masses download them. Nothing will be lost in the experience. In fact, everyone will have a front-row seat and an advantage that no one has in a real lecture...
Brring! will even allow users to customize ads to their friends’ tastes in return for more money. Immediately, we are confronted by a range of other ethical concerns regarding personal information??does any acquaintance of mine have the right to release my information to any advertising company that asks? Gmail, notoriously, already uses a client’s e-mail content and searches to provide specifically correlated advertisements in the margins—but at least such information is wholly under the user’s control...
Universities might not be doing enough to guard “sensitive information?? in their research labs, “potentially putting at risk U.S. national security interests,” according to a federal audit released this week. The audit, from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), suggests that schools receiving Defense Department funding aren’t doing enough to guard their gadgets from foreign countries and terrorists. Though it wasn’t mentioned by name in the report, Harvard received $21.9 million in Defense Department research funding in the 2005 fiscal year, the most recent...
...individual’s e-mail. But Sheth, the project manager at Google, said in an e-mail that “Google treats security and privacy of all users as paramount.” “Google abides by local and federal laws for release of information??just as Harvard would if the data was on local servers. The data is no more at risk than if it was stored locally,” Sheth added. Mark E. Baran ’10, who has been a private IT and e-mail network consultant...