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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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Information Confidentiality: 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…
FERPA, Privacy, and Identity Management: February 6, 2009
As we expand our services, especially outside our institutions through vendors and other partners, how do we ensure continued compliance with FERPA and other privacy laws? In this session, an attor…
News from the Hill: National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace: April 15, 2011

The White House released today the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) , a cybersecurity-based identity management vision and strategy. The strategy was relea…
Comments of the American Council on Education on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: May 8, 2008

On behalf of several higher education associations, the American Council on Education submitted comments on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act …
Comments of the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act: May 8, 2008

Comments of the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer and Network Security Task Force on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act; Proposed Rule, Federal Register , Vol. 73, No. 57, U.S. Department…
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&…
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…
Your Papers, Please: The Government Discovers Identity Management: October 10, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
Governments at all levels are getting into identity management, from drivers' licenses to standardized smart-card identity tokens, including biometrics and PKI certificates. Congress and law e…
RIT Information Security Policy: January 1, 2006

Rochester Institute of Technology's Information Security Policy. Policy includes information on lifecycle protection of RIT information systems, security related to the responsible use of inf…

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