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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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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

Latest News

Five Pilot Projects Receive Grants to Promote Online Security and Privacy

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 First to Achieve Bronze and Silver Assurance

Virginia Tech has become the first identity provider to achieve Bronze and Silver certification as part of the InCommon Assurance Program.

Recommended IAM Sessions at EDUCAUSE 2012

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...

Recommended Security & Privacy Sessions at EDUCAUSE 2012

Find a variety of E12 security and privacy-related sessions in Denver or online.

EDUCAUSE 2012 Policy and Security Seminars Announced

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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E-Mail Privacy: January 1, 1994

The establishment of codes of conduct and legal standards for use of e-mail in the workplace represents just one example of how the law must catch up with technology. …
Privacy and the National Information Infrastructure: January 1, 1994

In Educom Review's special report on national networking, ten experts report on policy, legislation, ethics, higher education, and the new role of government in determining our future. …
Security and Privacy on the Information Highway: Point/Counterpoint: January 1, 1994

The Clipper Chip issue has sparked countless debates. Is it a threat to our basic right to privacy, or is it a sound, workable balance of interests? Th…
Privacy Law in the Information Age: January 1, 1994

Where does the individual privacy start? And where does it end? Where does the individual privacy start? And where does it end? …
What Price Privacy? The Perils of CyberSpeech: January 1, 1995

Should the government endeavor to regulate private speech, whether in cyberspace or the dormitory room, simply because the ideas or language might be offensive to someone outside the speaker's…
Access Management for Networked Information Resources: January 1, 1998

This article briefly describes the access management problem and the two major architectural approaches (proxies and credentials-based approaches) coming into use to address it. This article does …
Privacy Issues in a Virtual Learning Environment: January 1, 1998

The authors discuss student privacy issues in a technological environment. They talk about how colleges and universities should address today's privacy issues, including discussion of process …
Recommended Reading: January 1, 1998

Three books are reviewed in this section: "The Learning Revolution: The Challenge of Information Technology in the Academy," edited by Diana Oblinger and Sean C. Rush; "For the Recor…
Legal Underpinnings for Creating Campus Computer Policy: January 1, 1996

In this Current Issues article, the authors examine needed changes in institutional computer use policies (and penalties for misuse) as they apply to the areas of adult material, harassment, privac…
The Sticky Side of the Web: January 1, 1996

The author of this Viewpoint article reminds readers that the many benefits of the World Wide Web come with some correspondingly difficult challenges. …