Re: Are professors above the law?


George Orwell wrote:
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> Trying to get back to the de Gennes case at http://www.justice4t.org.uk : de Gennes appears to have broken ESPCI rules, lied about various things to the police (or in court?) and, basically, tried to place himself and others in his department to be above the law.
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The link you give here does not provide any specifics neither about the
case itself nor about de Gennes role in the whole story.

But the most interesting thing is the title of the web-page: Ruling on
Email Privacy. Here in the US employees do not have e-mail privacy and
any privacy in the work place for that matter. Corporations buy and
install e-mail monitoring software and keep records of all internet
traffic and all web-sites that have been visited. And all that is
perfectly legal and respectable. So, here the case would never get to
court in the first place.

Old Pif

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