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Data Privacy Month
January is Data Privacy Month! Spend the month helping to raise awareness on your campus about privacy issues, ranging from information security and protecting personally identifiable information to how interacting with social media impacts privacy. Visit the Data Privacy Month 2013 webpage for examples of campus activities, as well as archived recordings of previous 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.
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- United States Department of Education's Family Policy Compliance Office (FCPO) (the "FERPA Office")
EDUCAUSE Staff Picks
- 7 Things You Should Know About Privacy In Web 2.0 Learning Environments, ELI 7 Things You Should Know
- 2012 Top Ten IT Issues Reflect Privacy, Security, and Compliance Challenges, EDUCAUSE Blog by Rodney Petersen
- Policy Dimensions of Analytics in Higher Education, EDUCAUSE Review
- Privacy in an Era of Social Media, EDUCAUSE Podcast with danah boyd
- Sensitive and Regulated Data: Permitted and Restricted Uses, University of Michigan standard
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InCommon will be heavily involved in a $1.8 million grant awarded to Internet2 to build a consistent and robust privacy infrastructure. Partners include Carnegie Mellon, Brown, University of Texas...
Virginia Tech has become the first identity provider to achieve Bronze and Silver certification as part of the InCommon Assurance Program.
The annual EDUCAUSE Conference in Denver will provide an opportunity to explore the range and depth of issues that campuses must consider as they build...
Find a variety of E12 security and privacy-related sessions in Denver or online.
PCI compliance, privacy, InCommon implementation, and legal issues in IT are just a few of the preconference seminar topics offered at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, November 6-9 in Denver....
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Privacy
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A Blueprint for Handling Sensitive Data: Security, Privacy, and Other Considerations
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January 1, 2007
Information security risks at colleges and universities present challenging legal, policy, technical, and operational issues. According to a recent study by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research…
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A Comprehensive Approach to Data Privacy and Security
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November 6, 2009
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference
As institutions of higher education move from a reactive to a proactive approach to addressing information security, they recognize that both prevention and response capabilities are required as pa…
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Collecting and Preserving Data in the Wake of a Tragedy
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May 6, 2008
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A session at the Security 2008
After the tragic events of April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech, IT professionals and university legal counsel had to quickly address the need to collect and preserve data in the event of future litiga…
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Data Breach Notification: Discussing Reactive Processes and Proactive Strategies
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April 5, 2011
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A session at the Security Professionals Conference 2011
Data security and privacy are focal points in many institutions' information security programs. There is a complex set of legal and regulatory frameworks for protecting data that we are entrus…
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Data Classification and Privacy: A Foundation for Compliance
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February 29, 2008
These slides were presented at the University System of Maryland's Workshop on Data Privacy for Maryland Higher Education. These slides were…
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Data Security: It's All About the Desktop
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October 20, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
Data is only as secure as the weakest link. After experiencing our share of computer thefts, viruses, and simple carelessness at Vassar, we are implementing a broad spectrum of desktop technologies…
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Department of Education Initiatives for Data and Information Protection
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October 19, 2011
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference
It's imperative for institutions of higher education to protect personally identifiable information (PII), especially in the context of student financial aid. Officials from the U.S. Departmen…
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Ferreting Out Sensitive Data
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March 10, 2009
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2009
FERPA, HIPAA, and red flag rules: we're swimming in an alphabet soup of federal regulations related to information privacy and prevention of identity theft. Learn how MIT approached the proble…
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GLBA at Two: What It Is, Who's Doing What, and Compliance on the Cheap
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May 16, 2005
In May 2003, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) appeared to be another unfunded federal mandate. For the unacquainted, the intent of this portion of the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 …
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HIPAA Privacy and Security for Academic Institutions
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January 1, 2005
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the first comprehensive federal law protecting the privacy and security of health information. This program will provide both an…
