The University of California at Berkeley is drawing praise for its decision to share how often it has granted access to email and other forms of electronic communication created by students, faculty members and staff at the institution.
The university earlier this year released its first transparency report, showing how many times since January 2014 the institution has received what are known as "nonconsensual access requests." UC-Berkeley says it is the first university to release such a report, according to The Daily Californian.
Read more at The Daily Californian: http://www.dailycal.org/2015/09/21/uc-berkeley-1st-college-in-us-to-publish-electronic-communications-transparency-report/
Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/24/privacy-experts-praise-uc-berkeley-transparency-report