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January is Data Privacy Month

You know the importance of protecting personal identities and the effects social media can have on privacy, but does everyone on your campus? In 2012, during the month of January, EDUCAUSE expanded on Data Privacy Day to provide an entire month’s worth of activities and resources to help raise data privacy awareness. Visit the EDUCAUSE Data Privacy Month page for examples of campus activities, as well as archived recordings of several privacy-related webinars.

Privacy in a Networked Environment

With the explosive growth of electronic networks and wide accessibility of online information, EDUCAUSE members -- along with many other higher education constituencies -- are dealing with a formidable set of privacy issues. A key set of issues revolves around the handling of student information, which under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 enjoys special protection.

Other Sources of Information about Online Privacy

Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information in new media.
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research center in Washington, D.C., established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy.
Privacy Forum, a moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of issues relating to the general topic of privacy (both personal and collective) in the "information age" of the 1990's and beyond.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society.

Updated February 2012

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IT Compliance Framework for Institutions of Higher Ed: April 16, 2013 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference
Institutions of higher education are increasingly expected to comply with various regulatory requirements specifically focused at data privacy and protection. Sometimes there could be overlap in ef…
On the Edges of Policy Questions, Student Privacy, and Student Learning: May 17, 2012 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2012
We all participate regularly in discussions of policy data, student learning data, and data privacy, yet it's difficult to bring the three domains together without conflict, as different prior…
Data Breach Notification: Discussing Reactive Processes and Proactive Strategies: April 5, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011
Data security and privacy are focal points in many institutions' information security programs. There is a complex set of legal and regulatory frameworks for protecting data that we are entrus…
Seminar 02Z - Things Your General Counsel Would Tell You If They Understood Information Security: April 6, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011
This session will provide information security professionals with information about the cases, laws, and regulations that directly impact information practices at their institutions. The presenters…
Way Too Much Private Information! How We're Fixing the Problem at Our Place: April 5, 2011 | A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011
Protecting private information presents challenges to higher educational institutions and often requires enterprise security initiatives. The universities represented on the panel will share lesson…
Changing Mind-Sets in Academia: How ISOs Can Leverage Faculty to Improve Privacy and Security: April 14, 2010 | A session at the Security 2010
While academia is often characterized as a cybersecurity risk to other critical infrastructures because of its values of openness and its lack of centralized control, it is also a national treasure…
Protecting Privacy in a Sea of Data: April 21, 2009 | A session at the Security 2009
The volume of digital data is growing at a rate that is nearly unimaginable. In 2007, the digital universe was estimated to be 161 exabytes of information collected and stored, with a further tenfo…
PGP/GPG Key Signing Party and Thawte Certificate Web of Trust: April 21, 2009 | A session at the Security 2009
Do you have Facebook friends? Are you LinkedIn with your colleagues? When e-mail communications involve sensitive information that needs encryption, how do you make sure you're really communic…
Privacy and Security: The Fraternal Twins of Information Protection: April 21, 2009 | A session at the Security 2009
Many people often use the terms "privacy" and "security" interchangeably when talking about information protection. Although privacy and security are distinctly different, they …
Cybersecurity Research Challenges: May 8, 2008
Today's most prevalent and widely discussed attacks exploit code-level flaws such as buffer overruns and type-invalid input. We need to anticipate tomorrow's attacks and think beyond buff…

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