Long after I had left COS, the SHSBC course sup read portions of my daughter's folders to me over the phone.
I was read some of Mayo's folders.
David Carlson, an Oldtimer, called me up and told me things that were in my PC folder that they had read to him.
I read all the folders of all the SHSBC students while I was on the Course. They are held in Course Admin and are available to be checked out by any student who is auditing on the Course.
PC folders are available to all tech people. Ethics, admin, auditors, c/s's, pages, examiners, fes'rs, you name it. They can get it and they can read it.
One might just as well publish their secrets in the LA Times as to confide them in COS.
chlng
Youre right, PC folders are available to virtually any tech terminal. In our org, the auditors, C/S, whatever auditor was FESing, the Ethics Officer (who also was the ED), the D of P (who was generally the DED, also the reg), any eithics interviewer (who were also course sups) were all able to access pc and ethics folders. The ED and DED did quite often.
It was something that disturbed me greatly as an auditor at the time - I knew there was no such thing as confidentiality. Particularly when there were sec checks going on, the DED used to read the session notes after almost every session, and request punishments of the pc for overts against her or her family. She would often get into yelling matches with the C/S trying to tell him what to C/S pcs for and how to do his job - to his credit he always tried to do the right thing by his pcs.
I had to FES my husbands folders. Noone thought that was perhaps a big violation of privacy, even though we were having BIG relationship problems at the time. I was very careful to keep my auditor hat on, and never brought up any of the info in his folder in any arguments or conversations, and never mentioned anything I saw to anyone, even when I blew.
When I was busted for writing a "things that shouldnt be report" on execs in the org (at the same time as a couple of my friends), I was ordered to go through my friends pc folder and find evidence that she was an SP, so that could be used against her. It was supposed to be a punishment for me and her. I said I would (to save my ass) but never did. She was my friend, and I was disgusted that this was the way HIS outpoints were to be handled - by finding dirt on other people.
This seemed to be a common handling - someone is critical of execs, go through their pc folder and find dirt.