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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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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Federal Privacy Law
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Higher Education in the Connected Age
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April 1, 2013
Diana G. Oblinger is President and CEO of EDUCAUSE. The change started with the network. Moving digital information instantly from one place to another has reshaped delivery systems…
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Accessibility: Front and Center
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April 1, 2013
Bruce Maas is the Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Earlier in my career, I had the privilege of working closely with two facu…
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The Policy of BYOD: Considerations for Higher Education
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April 1, 2013
Stephen diFilipo is Vice President and CIO at Cecil College. In December 2012, eWeek quoted Gartner Vice President Ken Dulaney: "IT has been saying this is the way, but…
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The Portmont College Story
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April 1, 2013
Srikant Vasan is Founder and President of Portmont College at Mount St. Mary's. When I was growing up in India, college was not the norm in my family. My father barely received…
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We Love E-Books!
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April 1, 2013
Carrie Rampp is Director of Library Services and Instructional Technology at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. True confession: I really love e-books. They are so conven…
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How Disruptive Is Information Technology Really?
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April 1, 2013
Judith A. Ramaley is President Emerita and Distinguished Professor of Public Service at Portland State University, President Emerita of Winona State University, and a Senior Scholar with…
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ds106: Not a Course, Not Like Any MOOC
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January 28, 2013
Alan Levine, an independent consultant ( CogDog.it ), currently teaches the open digital storytelling course ds106. Levine is an innovator in educational technology, previously working…
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MOOCs: Get in the Game
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January 28, 2013
Brian D. Voss is Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the University of Maryland. In July 2012, John V. Lombardi (someone I have admired for nearly three decades and came…
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Amassing Student Data and Dissipating Privacy Rights
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January 28, 2013
Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, D.C. He teaches Information Privacy Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Khali…
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Is Linking Thinking? Addressing and Assessing Scholarship in a Digital Era
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January 28, 2013
Michael Roy is the L. Douglas and Laura J. Meredith Dean of LIS and Chief Information Officer at Middlebury College. Our analog world is being replaced with a digital one that at ti…
