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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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Lightning Round: A New Model for Managing the Release of Personally Identifiable Information in a Federated World: March 13, 2012
Campuses use the Shibboleth system to authenticate their users to on- and off-campus services and assert attributes describing users. A Shibboleth extension allows sites to simplify the management …
Leverage the Cloud + Leverage In-House + Improve Security = Save Money: January 11, 2012 | 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…
Building a Self-Audit, Advising, and Community Tool Using WordPress: March 30, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011
Educational Technology used WordPress with the BuddyPress plug-in for rapid development of a self-audit tool for English majors that also implemented some community features via optional sharing of…
HIPAA Demystified: A Simple Approach to Building a HIPAA Compliance Program: March 30, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011
The HIPAA/HITECH Act now requires any entity that handles protected health information (PHI) to report breaches, whether in paper or electronic form. For colleges and universities with employee h…
Legal Basics for IT Professionals: March 16, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2011
Whose laws does your campus IT department have to obey? Who can sue you for noncompliance? Why do public and private institutions have different legal requirements? Do students from other states or…
Creating an Information Security Program: Policy, Process, and Cultural Change: March 10, 2010 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010
Complying with state and federal regulations regarding personal information and data breaches is both a challenge and a concern for many universities. This session will review how two different i…
Ferreting Out Sensitive Data: March 10, 2009 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009
FERPA, HIPAA, and red flag rules: we're swimming in an alphabet soup of federal regulations related to information privacy and prevention of identity theft. Learn how MIT approached the proble…
Implementing fsaAtlas for International Students: January 8, 2009 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009
Temple University has implemented the fsaAtlas system to manage international student information by migrating data from the existing i1440 system. The federal government has mandated that universi…
The Privacy Landscape in the Academy - Sponsored by Wimba: January 17, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2008
Privacy is a concept established by law and often embraced as part of institutional policies, academic values, or professional practice. Innovations in information technologies and changing cultura…
Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror: March 21, 2007 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2007
Technology gives us the ability to create a surveillance society beyond anything Orwell could have imagined. Our limitations are no longer external but internal: We must choose how much privacy we&…

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