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Pursuing Academic Freedom and Data Privacy Is a Balancing Act

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Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants, will have access to “academic, extracurricular, demographic and other information” from all undergrads who applied to Harvard between the fall 2009 and spring 2015, omitting names and Social Security numbers.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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5 Reasons to Address Cyber Security

edWeb.net

Juan was selected as 2015 Texas Latino Superintendent and was one of 100 Superintendents to participate in the National ConnectED Superintendents Summit at the White House. In 2015, Dr. Lilly was recognized as one of the Top 30 Technologists, Transformers, and Trailblazers by the Center for Digital Excellence.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Handing over data, often quite thoughtlessly, has become par for the course – in education and in society more generally. “ Seen ” cheating.).

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Four Student Data Privacy Issues Adults Should Be Aware Of

MindShift

Several efforts in Washington are converging on the sensitive question of how best to safeguard the information software programs are gathering on students. A proposed Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act of 2015 is circulating in draft form. Think of all the edits on a school paper written in Google Docs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. We want to be the Uber for Education,” Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun told the Financial Times in 2015.

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