Monday, February 16, 2009

intrusion of privacy

i just attended my NM lecture on intrusion of privacy and realized that there is an obvious breach of privacy in the block!

haha...

the blockhead does send out a detailed contact list at the start of each semster so that people can do keep in contact with each other. however, the problem is ... the contact list is too well detailed! one of the unnecessary details i realized is the inclusion of matric card number. as every single student in NUS has a number for himself (yes.. very much like a prisoner), this number can do wonders.. 2 scenarios below depicts some of the useful functions of matric card no...

stealing matric number to check the exam results...
this doesn't occur too often but there is alwauys sombody out there who are too concerned with their fellow block mates' academic results and will resort to such methods to 'help' check results (sometimes mid term results are released in PDF format). isn't this an obvious case of intrusion of privacy ?

that fellow should really face the walls and repent.. haha...

i shall continue in the next entry...

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