TriNetre - Archive for October 23, 2005

(no longer updated)

Recently, I have been seeing bloggers investigating into IIPM 'incident' post stories that contained email exchanges between them and faculty members and other individuals related to IIPM via seminars etc.The latest among this is the email exchange between a blogger and Dr. J.F.Collier. The question I want to raise is the ethics of quoting personal communication like email in one's post/articles without obtaining prior permission from the other party.

While I have no authority to say it is wrong to do this, from an personal ethical point, I find the practice a bit unsettling, especially since the original email intentionally hid the fact that this was a part of digging up mud about IIPM.

I like everything under the sun about IT ethics and corporate responsibility..

says the author, but was he ethical in quoting a personal email in his website without permission?