Security officials pull Twitter snap after it’s accused of ‘abusing trust’

The University’s security bosses apologised today – after pulling a Twitter snap dubbed an ‘abuse of trust’.

Officials were dealing with an unwell student, who had been drinking, at an accommodation block on campus when they snapped their work and uploaded it to Twitter for their 200 followers.

But the photo came under fire from an undergraduate who said that it was ‘abusing’ the student’s trust and their position.

Second-year music student Matt tweeted: “Whatever happened to confidentiality and discretion?”

A spokesperson for the University Security Service insisted that the unwell student was not featured in the snap.

They tweeted to add that they were highlighting their work, showing the things they do that are not security-related.

But bass-baritone and conductor Matt, who performs at the local York Minster, said that the photo went ‘too far’ and that ‘discretion’ must be paramount.

“We all appreciate it [the work the Security Service does], but surely this photo is a bit too far, the text did the job. Discretion must be absolute. So imp,” he tweeted.

The University Security Service tweeted to apologise, adding that the photo had been removed.

Attempts by security officials to raise student awareness and to get out information better were launched with the Twitter account back in September 2013.

They began tweeting photos regularly with their work earlier this year.

A spokesperson for the University Security Service told Vision that the photo had been taken down pending a review.

@MattCollinsBass The unwell student isn’t shown in the photo. Just highlighting the work we are involved in not just security issues.

— UoY Security Service (@UoYSecurity) January 25, 2014