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There Is a Heightened Awareness Around Student Data Privacy. Here’s What Schools Are Doing About It

Digital Promise

Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers. Private equity firm is amassing companies that collect data on America’s children. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) to ‘Crack Down’ on Ed Tech, Student Data Privacy.

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When Does Posting Photos of Students Become a Data Privacy Problem?

Edsurge

“Even relatively low proportions of posts that reveal the PII of students mean that the privacy of hundreds of thousands of students may be risked,” researchers wrote. The quantities were notable, researchers explained, because of well-documented parental concerns over other people having access to their children’s information.

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COPPA Best Practices: Advice for Schools on Staying on the Right Side of the Law

Edsurge

For guidance on these and other matters, her district works with the California Student Privacy Alliance and their student data privacy agreement, a template document districts can use as a contract with providers. The agreement is very robust and provides a good launching point for conversation.”

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

Edsurge

Chad Marlow, ACLU Counsel According to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a Washington, D.C.-based based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. But what happens in these legislative halls are rarely visible to teachers, students and parents.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

Levin documented that more than a million student records have been affected, not thousands. Levin counted each district’s data breach separately, even if they were all hit by the same cyber attack. Confidential health information of students in Chicago was kept on unsecured web documents that anyone could access.

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Want to Organize Your Digital Assets?

EdNews Daily

Digital/digitized elements (such as documents, video, e-books, lesson plans) . An example is the distribution of iPads to all students. A good strategy will provide the oversight and direction to use those iPads to change the students’ approach to education. Collaboration tools, such as video conferencing .

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Implied: students are lazy; students are conniving; students are academically unprepared. There were also cyber attacks against testing systems and several examples of data being leaked due to negligence and “ human error ” – and as a result of all of this, plenty of lawsuits. million children ?

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