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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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Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA): April 8, 2011

The Education Department has released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The proposed regulations would give states the flexibi…
Lawful Access: Issues and Challenges for Universities: April 7, 2011

This presentation will focus on the discrete types of legal process or demands that universities are likely to see from law enforcement and civil parties ; the types of situations when such de…
Email & IM Retention Policy: February 23, 2011

This California State University East Bay policy establishes the default retention periods for email and instant messages retained on active servers. It also confirms roles and responsibili…
Central E-mail Archiving and Retention Services: February 23, 2011

This North Carolina State University page explains employee class codes and which ones are required to archive their e-mail. This North Carolina …
"Bag It and Tag It": Implementing a Course-Level Learning Portfolio Using CMS-Based Tools to Document Student Learning When Teaching in Wild, Open Spaces with Cloud-Based Tools (Pilot Program/Emerging Technology): February 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2011
As more of us adopt cloud-based tools (e.g., blogs, wikis, Google Docs, etc.) for use by students in authentic learning activities, we find ourselves without the student-produced artifacts that we …
Student Privacy (FERPA): January 20, 2011

FERPA information concering distance education for North Carolina State University's DELTA program. FERPA information concering distance ed…
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…
Privacy Considerations in Cloud-Based Teaching and Learning Environments: January 5, 2011

In this white paper, we outline the privacy issues relevant to using cloud-based instructional tools or cloud-based teaching and learning environments for faculty members and those supporting ins…

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