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| 2011-10-14 | |
| Updated link Marketing student Marc Bechtol learned from Catawba Valley Community College that what you say can come back to haunt you. The school suspended Bechtol on Oct. 4 for two semesters and banned him from campus in response to a comment he made about the school on Facebook. The incident started when Bechtol was forced to sign up with the college's debit card service through Higher One bank in order to access his grant money. In the process of signing up, he was reportedly asked for personal information, such as his Social Security number and his date of birth. Not long after he signed up, he allegedly began to receive unwelcome spam email from various credit card companies. According to the website for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Bechtol wrote a post on the college's Facebook page on Sept. 28 about the incident. "Did anyone else get a bunch of credit card spam in their CVCC inbox today? So, did CVCC sell our names to banks, or did Higher One? I think we should register CVCC's address with every porn site known to man. Anyone know any good viruses to send them?"
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| Posted by:JohnQC |
| #4 If it's free, you're not the customer. You're the product. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-10-14 22:04 |
| #3 "You Never Know Who Might Read Your Facebook Entries" or anything posted on the internet. Key words, ideas, mood, all public chatter on any form of communication. Stock market, medical records, government, business, politicians all want this information. They want to have an advantage. The decisions now will change day by day minute by minute as the prevailing wind blows. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-10-14 21:00 |
| #2 Article deleted on source |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-10-14 19:51 |
| #1 If its a community college, then its state funded. Maybe the governor/AG need to have a talk with the 'trustees'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-10-14 10:37 |