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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
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Federal Privacy Law
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Protecting the Security of Research Data
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November 8, 2011
The effective protection and management of research data has become a hot topic in U.S. higher education. Funding agencies increasingly require data management plans as part of grant submittals…
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Privacy and Confidentiality: Holding IT Service Providers Accountable
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November 3, 2009
This ECAR research bulletin addresses the data privacy issues that must be covered by contractual language when entering into an agreement for externally provided IT services or for external con…
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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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Information Confidentiality
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March 11, 2009
Protecting information confidentiality is a critical security objective for all colleges and universities. Institutions must deploy confidentiality controls in addition to security controls, and…
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Regulatory Compliance Training: Public Jobs, Private Data
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April 15, 2008
This research bulletin details the procedures and processes undertaken by the University of Minnesota to ensure that all employees, from student workers and custodial staff through senior researc…
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Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel
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August 31, 2007
This is the report on the Virginia Tech shooting by a review panel appointed by the governor of Virginia. The report covers the following topics, physical security, privacy laws, mental health…
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Fuzzy Understandings of FERPA
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June 15, 2007
"A federal report on the Virginia Tech shootings considers the misunderstanding of federal and state privacy laws to be a “substantial obstacle” to the information sharing needed to prot…
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University Campus Safety Final Report
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January 1, 2007
In light of the recent tragedy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed an executive order April 30, 2007, creating a Gubernat…
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Privacy vs. Security
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January 1, 2007
"Even before all the details emerged in last week's mass shootings at Virginia Tech University, a specific chain of responses seemed certain: The university would announce an internal inv…
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A Unified Approach to Information Security Compliance
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January 1, 2006
© 2006 M. Peter Adler EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 5 (September/October 2006): 46–61 M. Peter Adler, JD, LLM, CISSP, CIPP, is the President of Adler InfoSec & Privacy Group LLC …
