Change Log: Acceptable Use Policy

This document lists significant changes that have been made to the Acceptable Use Policy.

Date	Change description	Original text
11/10/2007	During the annual review of this document, a number of wording changes were made to align the language with the expectations outlined in the Information Resources Use and Security Policy. In addition, the following changes were made: 1. Policy moved from Information Technology Services site to Vice President for Information Technology site. 2. Formatted document to conform to other policy documents. Added section II. Audience. 3. From "What can I expect?": Changed heading to "III. Privacy Expectations." Consolidated "What can I do about being harassed?" into section VI. Disciplinary Actions. Removed "What happens if someone complains about me?" 4. Updated Privacy Expectations (*Sec III) to make mention of the U. T. Austin Network Monitoring Standards (http://www.utexas.edu/its/policies/opsmanual/monitor.php). 5. Updated Requirements (Sec V) to more directly cover copyright violations associated with peer-to-peer misuse (Rule #7, Rule #9*)
4/9/2007	Section II, change requested by Compliance Office and Legal Affairs: "Furthermore, the university will comply with the lawful orders of courts, such as subpoenas and search warrants. This compliance has included providing, when required, copies of discussions on university operated mailing list servers, discussion threads on university operated news servers, e-mail content stored on university IT resources, or other information ordered by the court."	"Furthermore, the university will comply with the lawful orders of courts, such as subpoenas and search warrants. This compliance has included providing, when required, copies of discussions on university operated mailing list servers, discussion threads on university news servers, or other information ordered by the court."
11/17/2006	Removed language about Brightmail and IronPort technologies from section VI, "Spam" #3. Replaced with "ITS uses robust hardware and software to control spam on all e-mail services provided by ITS. Specific questions about spam can be addressed to the ITS Help Desk."	"ITS uses a combination of Ironport appliances and Brightmail software to control spam on all e-mail services provided by ITS. Specific questions about spam can be addressed to the ITS Help Desk."

Date

Change description

Original text

11/10/2007

During the annual review of this document, a number of wording changes were made to align the language with the expectations outlined in the Information Resources Use and Security Policy. In addition, the following changes were made:

1. Policy moved from Information Technology Services site to Vice President for Information Technology site.

2. Formatted document to conform to other policy documents. Added section II. Audience.

3. From "What can I expect?":

Changed heading to "III. Privacy Expectations."
Consolidated "What can I do about being harassed?" into section VI. Disciplinary Actions.
Removed "What happens if someone complains about me?"

4. Updated Privacy Expectations (Sec III) to make mention of the U. T. Austin Network Monitoring Standards (http://www.utexas.edu/its/policies/opsmanual/monitor.php).

5. Updated Requirements (Sec V) to more directly cover copyright violations associated with peer-to-peer misuse (Rule #7, Rule #9)

4/9/2007

Section II, change requested by Compliance Office and Legal Affairs:

"Furthermore, the university will comply with the lawful orders of courts, such as subpoenas and search warrants. This compliance has included providing, when required, copies of discussions on university operated mailing list servers, discussion threads on university operated news servers, e-mail content stored on university IT resources, or other information ordered by the court."

"Furthermore, the university will comply with the lawful orders
of courts, such as subpoenas and search warrants. This compliance has included providing, when required, copies of discussions on university operated mailing list servers, discussion threads on university news servers, or other information ordered by the court."

11/17/2006

Removed language about Brightmail and IronPort technologies from section VI, "Spam" #3. Replaced with "ITS uses robust hardware and software to control spam on all e-mail services provided by ITS. Specific questions about spam can be addressed to the ITS Help Desk."

"ITS uses a combination of Ironport appliances and Brightmail software to control spam on all e-mail services provided by ITS. Specific questions about spam can be addressed to the ITS Help Desk."

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