Caveon Web Patrol
Friend-of-Program/Bystander Notice

To: Copyright Agent, Groups.google.com

cc: Western Governors University

Date: September 18, 2012

Dear Groups.google.com,

I am writing to inform you of the possible disclosure of confidential test information on Groups.google.com. Specifically, information located at the following link indicates that test material available on Groups.google.com contain actual test information taken from MQTA exams created and owned by Western Governors University:

• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fro...sc/_LqciFmCOs4 (Kat-Cornfused about Excel)


My organization, Caveon Test Security, is a member of the testing community engaged by Western Governors University to actively monitor the Internet for possible disclosures of test information. In the interest of the continued security and fairness of Western Governors University’s tests, we ask your help in investigating the suspected disclosure(s) cited above.

Test owners, including Western Governors University, depend on the fairness and credibility of tests to perform many life-altering decisions about individual competence. The possible disclosure of information on Groups.google..com therefore threatens Western Governors University’s ability to qualify individuals for MQTA by test, and threatens Western Governors University’s substantial investments in the creation and distribution of its tests. U.S. Courts have indicated that substantial damages are available to test owners for the unauthorized taking and publication of test information protected by copyright and other law (e.g., National Conference of Bar Examiners v. Multistate Legal Studies, ED PA 2006).

While only Western Governors University may invoke legal rights related to its tests, your prompt attention to this matter by immediately removing any and all MQTA material listed in the sites above, including any and all other projects containing MQTA exam material from sites owned by or related to Groups.google.com, may obviate the need for Western Governors University to take action. If you believe that the suspected disclosure(s) listed above is in error, I invite you to contact me at your earliest convenience with information that will clarify the content and purposes of the information located on Groups.google.com at the links cited above.


Sincerely,


Christie Zervos
Caveon Test Security
6905 South 1300 East #468
Midvale, UT 84047