As students grow wary that public-safety officers may be browsing their Facebook profiles, officials at Princeton University have moved to assuage concerns about social-network snooping. Although Facebook is by no means private, the officials say, campus police won’t be allowed to skim the site for evidence of upcoming parties or of students’ bad behavior. Instead, the officers will use the site only to aid ongoing investigations.
Students at Princeton had complained that several public-safety officers had created their own Facebook accounts and misleadingly billed themselves as undergraduates. (The Daily Princetonian)
For more on campus police officers’ use of Facebook, see a story from The Chronicle by Brock Read.
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