Posted on 06/26/2006 11:41:42 AM PDT by WaterDragon
Catawba County Schools took aim at Google Friday.
The system filed an injunction against the Internet search engine
The temporary injunction, granted by the Honorable Richard D. Boner, calls for Google to remove any information pertaining to Catawba County Schools Board of Education from its server and index and alleges conversion and trespass against the corporation.
In short, schools say Google grabbed information they shouldn’t have.
Google says they are wrong.
Either way, the names, Social Security numbers and test scores of 619 students were still bouncing around the Web for people with computers to find and read until late Friday, when the page was apparently removed.
Catawba County Schools chief technology officer Judith Ray said her department removed the file from its storage server Friday. They are also working to delete any other electronic files that may contain Social Security numbers or other secure student information.
The information was stored in the system’s DocuShare server, which required a username and password to access, Ray said.
“One of the students on the list had a presence on the Web,” she said. “In Google’s effort to get information on her, one of its spiders latched onto her name in this document. We were not aware that password-protected sites are set up like that. To our knowledge, Google could only cache unsecure information that did not require a password or username.”
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The Honerable Dick Boner?
"Honorable Richard D. Boner"
Oh, no, they didn't. Surely not! Cruel, cruel parents.
More:
In response to Judge Boner's injunction, Google V.P. for Community relations, Michael Hunt, said, "Neener, neener, neener.
Maybe he's French. Bo-nair?
THeir system was secure. That isnt Googles fault.
Google spiders (any searche ngines spider really) is nothing more than a web browser that plucks links and follows it. If it hits a brick wall like a username and password, it wont get the document but it appears the system the school has doesnt block squat. I think the school should be sued by the parents if anything.
Oh, no, they didn't. Surely not! Cruel, cruel parents.
Always run your child's potential name in front of your friends. If they snicker, don't use that name.
Bet Dicky D had a tough childhood.
Dick D. Boner.... curiously, this just happens to be my porn screen name.
"Bet Dicky D had a tough childhood."
Not as tough as his brother, A. Hugh Boner. Nobody's heard from him since his 14th birthday, when he ran, screaming from his home.
The ideal husband for James Bond's girlfriend in Goldfinger!
"Dick D. Boner.... curiously, this just happens to be my porn screen name."
I had a high school classmate (I graduated in 1974) named Richard B. Slack. You can imagine the hell he went through.
I had a professor named Richard Head.
It's not googles fault at all. They need to learn what robots.txt.
Here's freerepublics.
http://www.freerepublic.com/robots.txt
And his wife, Ima.
If the school does not want Google searching their pages, they need to add code to the site to instruct the Google web spiders to skip the site.
Google bump...
You nailed it- if they put the info on unsecure web pages THEY are at fault, not google.
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