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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.

Other Privacy Resources

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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Napster, Udacity, and the Academy: November 12, 2012

Clay Shirky provides a thoughtful discussion in this blog on MOOCs and its early stages of possible disruption of higher education. Clay Shirky p…
The Ultimate eLearning Design and Development Checklist: April 9, 2012

Blogger Nicole Legault created a comprehensive checklist for those involved in the design and development of eLearning courses. Subject areas include; Instructional Design Assessments…
The Evolving LMS Market, Part I and Part II: December 21, 2010

In this post,the author discusses what the data are telling us so far about the recent shifts in the market, describe how colleges and universities come to decide that they need to go to market f…
Social Media guidelines: June 4, 2009

This blog from Florida International University provides some guidelines for how to communicate on behalf of FIU on social media sites. This blog…
Toward a Product Evaluation Framework: March 7, 2010

This evaluation framework is offered not as a final model, but as a route by which people can think through and share some ideas around this goal. Conversation, disagreement, and dialogue about t…
Learning about Lecture Capture Technology: February 21, 2010

This blogger is in the process of picking a lecture capture technology and is blogging about the experience and their findings. This blogger is i…
Copyright Threats End UCLA Library’s Online Video System: February 5, 2010

Michael Weinberg writes in a Public Knowledge blog, "Being able to watch videos on your own time is a great boon to students. There is no practical reason that a student has to be in a certa…
The Meaning of Open: December 21, 2009

A blog entry from Google executive, Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Product Management on the meaning on "Open". A b…
Cyber-Insurance Advancement Underscores Data Breach Risk Recognition: January 15, 2009

While the market for cyber-insurance remains largely nascent, with most private sector organizations still unable to adequately safeguard their financial and operational well-being against a majo…
Got Cyber Insurance?: March 31, 2007

Q. What do most companies not have none of, most companies think they have some of, but no company ever wants to use any of? A. Cyber Insurance …