An Uruguayan judge asked telephony operators Skylight and Antel that they release information on their clients in an investigation on 135 students of Medicine School, accused of cheating in an examination using text messages.
This request, which the public university already did back in 2007 without success, was rejected by Antel, whose president, Edgardo Carvalho, said that he will only give the records of users calls if a legal ruling exists.
The case arose in June, 2006, when the teachers of the practical examination of biology warned that suddenly students had similar answers in one of the questions, they noticed a medical term of little use that scarcely had appeared in previous examinations.
This way, the School Council resolved to annul 135 tests and initiate an administrative investigation before the suspicion that students who had already passed, sent the answers via text messages to their peers.
Source: EFE
