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Few Pennsylvania schools are checking websites and apps for privacy leaks, notifying parents and training teachers.
The recent cyber attacks at Penn State have put personal information of 18,000 students in the hands of hackers. What should universities do to protect students’ privacy?
This paper examines Google's behavior in enterprise contracts in the education sector with the critical question of whether it uses data-mining and profile for its own commercial purposes, in conflict with conflicts and institutional obligations
Apps and other software can put powerful teaching tools at teachers’ fingertips, but concerns abound over data security, effectiveness and marketing.
The law has long treated educational information as a category worthy of special protections, like credit or medical records, but the reality is often different.
Obama's proposed Student Digital Privacy Act aims to limit what schools can do with data collected from apps used in K-12 classrooms. But college students are just as vulnerable to privacy violations.
As we near the turn of the year into 2015, organizations should keep an eye on laws taking effect on the West Coast. This year, the crop of new privacy
A Hack Education Project
$1.3-billion project crashes and burns as new superintendent shelves it.
Nathan Ringo writes that school administrators freaked out when he found ways around the district’s flawed censorware–and when he warned his fellow students about the spyware and creepy…
Private companies want to scoop up your child's data.
The arrival of new technologies in schools and classrooms around the nation has been met with a mixture of enthusiasm and anxiety. Education technologies (ed te
The participating companies are publicly committing themselves not to sell information on kindergartners through 12th graders.
Each kid is unique, but there’s one thing all students have in common: They are data-generating machines. This tsunami of data is absorbed and stored by school districts, state databases, educational service providers, websites, and app makers. Most of this data collection is well intentioned, but not all.
BAD IDEA, MICHIGAN.
What an ethics policy might look like.