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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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E-Mail Archiving: All Things to All People: October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
Need to preserve selected records in accordance with your retention schedule, remove "old" e-mail from fast storage media, or keep a tamper-proof copy of all e-mail for legal compliance? …
Security Breaches and Identity Theft: May 17, 2007
As Congress strives to pass legislation that would provide a uniform federal law for security breach notifications, a number of related privacy and security policy proposals are under consideration…
Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror: May 8, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional 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&…
Preparing for Data Protection Laws: How to Earn an A+ from Your Attorney General: April 12, 2007 | A session at the Security 2007
In response to new state data-protection laws, Indiana University undertook a campaign to educate faculty, staff, and administration on best practices for handling sensitive data, as well as the co…
Roundup of Legal Developments in Cybersecurity and Privacy Law: April 11, 2007 | A session at the Security 2007
This session will cover state and federal legal and regulatory developments in information security and privacy, including the notice of security breach laws and actions by the Federal Trade Commis…
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&…
Balancing Security and Privacy in Times of Cyberterror: March 13, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional 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&…
From Soup to Nuts: Copyright, Social Networking Technologies, and Electronic Surveillance: March 14, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007
This session will survey a number of current issues of interest to research libraries such as developments in the digital copyright arena, the present and future of social networking technologies (…
Balancing Privacy and Security in Times of Cyberterror: February 22, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference 2007
Some 230 years ago, Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Kansas Senator Patrick Roberts recently said, "You have no civil liberties if you're dead." Thi…
Legal Perspectives on Data Security: February 22, 2007
This session will provide an overview of legal and regulatory requirements and emerging liability trends that influence the protection of research data for the scientific community. Specific case h…

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