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World Backup Day March 31st: Student data security

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Cybercriminals using stolen student information can cause serious long-term issues and often go unnoticed. For example, of 40,000 children who were involved in a 2011 data breach , more than 10% of them had their social security numbers compromised and used by a cybercriminal. Identity information and personal records.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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Online program managers and companies with software designed around student success and administrative services are acquisition targets for Instructure, which appears closely matched with rival Blackboard in the LMS space, says Trace Urdan.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.) Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account.

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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. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. It works well too for teachers wanting to bypass the procurement bureaucracy.

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