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What Happens to Student Data Privacy When Chinese Firms Acquire U.S. Edtech Companies?

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Their main goal in acquiring United States edtech companies lies in building profitability, says Pep So, NetDragon’s Director of Corporate Development. We don’t have a straight answer about what we can and cannot do and to be honest I don’t think Facebook has one as well. edtech startups,” Carter explains. “I presence. “It

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

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Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage.

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Today's Newsletter: Student Data Privacy in Peril

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Worries over personal data are not restrained to Russians and Facebook. This weekend’s reading of the Tech&Learning news feeds indicates that the issue is an edtech sore point as well. Edweek surveys privacy experts on what the Cambridge Analytica fiasco means for schools. But there isn’t.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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And we’re filing stories that capture the essence of the edtech industry in 2018. But the edtech industry has hit some bumps along the way, wrestling with collateral concerns from the public spotlight over data privacy and security. A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech (and Whether It Works).

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

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Zeynep Tufekci shares her experiences more broadly (beyond education) in this provocative talk from June 2016: I’ll be spending some time later this week with friends and colleagues at the EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium and look forward to the dialogue. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition).

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Will 2019 Be the Year of Privacy? Five Things to Look for in Education

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That white noise you heard around student data privacy in 2018 is about to be replaced with thunder. Relative to the flurry of legislative activity seen in prior years, it was a somewhat measured year for student data privacy. This year, it seemed that everyone was catching their breath.

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Meet Caliper, the Data Standard That May Help Us (Finally) Measure Edtech Efficacy

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You don’t have to be a technologist, teacher, or even work in a school, to appreciate the conveniences that data sharing enables. For example, a educator who is making a restaurant reservation on OpenTable may be delighted to see if their Facebook friends have eaten at that restaurant. And that creates data that can be shared.

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