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5 Essential Tools for Protecting Student Privacy Online

Fractus Learning

While it has many uses beyond protecting student privacy, the image blurring feature offers a very quick and easy way to add privacy to student photos and documents. More than 70 companies just signed a pledge to protect student data privacy. Adblock Plus – Limit advertising and.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

However, Levin’s own analysis of the data he shared with the GAO arrived at different totals. He counted 458 data breaches in school districts; 315 involved the unauthorized release of student data. Levin documented that more than a million student records have been affected, not thousands.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. For a time, Edmodo was quite the ed-tech industry darling. And “free” doesn’t last.

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