{"id":14307,"date":"2025-03-28T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/information-technology\/policies\/information-security-practice-protecting-the-privacy-of-users\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:58:27","slug":"information-security-practice-protecting-the-privacy-of-users","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/information-technology\/policies\/information-security-practice-protecting-the-privacy-of-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Security Practice: Protecting the Privacy of Users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s IT professionals shall take reasonable measures to protect the privacy of accounts assigned to 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s authorized users. Though absolute privacy of 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s authorized users cannot be guaranteed, as a general practice, the contents of user accounts shall be treated as private and not examined or disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implementation Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fundamental purpose of information security tools and practices is to protect the university\u2019s IT resources and accounts, mindful of the need to protect the \u201cprivacy interests\u201d of authorized users. Those 51ÁÔÆæ staff members in UITS and CTS with the technical ability to access others\u2019 51ÁÔÆæ accounts shall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n