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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.
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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Federal Privacy Law
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Privacy and the Connected Campus
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May 21, 2013
As students, scholars, and administrators use today’s connected online tools , they leave behind a “ data exhaust ” that can reveal a surprisingly detailed picture of individual activi…
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Leverage the Cloud + Leverage In-House + Improve Security = Save Money
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January 11, 2012
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A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012
The University of Maryland in Baltimore had to replace its in-house student e-mail system. Our students wanted Google. We had concerns with security as well as compliance requirements such as HIPAA…
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Privacy Considerations in Cloud-Based Teaching and Learning Environments
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January 5, 2011
In this white paper, we outline the privacy issues relevant to using cloud-based instructional tools or cloud-based teaching and learning environments for faculty members and those supporting ins…
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Government Access to Electronic Communications—Updating the Rules
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June 9, 2010
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was a forward-looking statute when enacted in 1986. It specified standards for law enforcement access to e-mail and other electronic communication…
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Cyberspace: A Matter of National Security - Sponsored by Trustwave
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April 13, 2010
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A session at the Security 2010
Cyberspace began as the domain of technologists and engineers, with a focus on building circuits, switches, computers, and software that could reliably sustain a new global form of communication. I…
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Forward Into the Cloud
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September 30, 2009
With more students auto-forwarding e-mail to private accounts, even colleges that have not outsourced their e-mail find it difficult to keep correspondence on their own servers. …
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Partly Cloudy? What a CBO Should Know about Cloud Computing
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June 29, 2009
Cloud computing presents an opportunity for outsourcing what have long been core internal IT functions and systems on campus. In the coming months and years, many institutions will be exploring …
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E-Mail: In or Out?
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October 30, 2008
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
E-mail is a critical yet expensive service to maintain. Students view it as a commodity and often criticize the functionality provided by in-house solutions. Hosted e-mail vendors offer free servic…
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A Solution Looking for a Problem
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May 7, 2008
© 2008 Rebecca Gould and Elizabeth Unger. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License ( http://creat…
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Well, if They’re Already Using It ...
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October 25, 2007
College representatives at Educause conference ponder outsourcing e-mail to Google and how to embrace students’ Facebook habits. College repr…
