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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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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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Family Education Rights and Privacy Act: Electronic Signatures
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January 1, 2004
LeRoy Rooker the Head of the Department of Education's Family Policy Compliance Office discusses FERPA and electronic signitures. LeRoy Rooker the…
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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) - Final Regulations
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January 1, 2004
The U.S. Department of Education has published Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations to provide schools with flexible standards for accepting "signed and dated written …
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Hackers Steal ID Info From Virginia University
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January 1, 2005
George Mason University has become the latest institution of higher education to be the victim of hackers' accessing personal information of faculty and students. University officials said tha…
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HIPAA Security Standards
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January 1, 2003
Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards; Final Rule. Dated February 20, 2003. Health Insurance Reform: Security Standards; Final Rule. Dated Februa…
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Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011 Report
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June 1, 2011
Key Findings Higher education has made substantial progress in the last five years, but many institutions are still struggling to deliver the full benefits of IdM. Institutions that report the…
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Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011—Key Findings
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June 1, 2011
This document presents the key findings from Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011. This ECAR research study illuminates findings from the 2010 survey of identity management (IdM) …
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Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011—Roadmap
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June 1, 2011
This ECAR roadmap synthesizes the important issues and recommended actions drawn from the study Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011 , by Mark C. Sheehan and Cedric Bennett, with…
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Identity Management in Higher Education, 2011—Slide Presentation
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June 1, 2011
This slide presentation illuminates findings from the ECAR 2011 research of identity management (IdM) practices in higher education . This slide deck can be adapted for presentations within…
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Identity Management in Higher Education: A Baseline Study
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April 18, 2006
Abstract This ECAR research study illuminates findings from a survey of identity management practices in higher education. In addition to exploring the adoption of identity management techno…
