Educause

JUNE 5, 2023

What are privacy officers talking about when they talk about privacy? And why is it important?

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 17, 2023

August is Data Protection, Privacy, and Student Agency month here at WCET. Today’s post, from WCET’s own Rosa Calabrese, zeros in on the importance of ensuring data security and privacy for our students and staff. Privacy is a concept that exists outside of technology.

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Campus Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A new Showcase Series from Educause, titled “Privacy and Cybersecurity 101,” offers guidance for higher education leaders on pressing issues of the day: data privacy, information security, and institutional transparency around both.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Wade—the nearly 50-year federal right to abortion access—digital privacy advocates warned of government access to and weaponization of private health information found on period-tracking apps. Most universities provide information on safeguarding digital privacy, and most also provide information on reproductive health.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 19, 2022

VpnMentor said the data breach exposed over 117 million files filled with hundreds of thousands of grades and email addresses.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Cleveland State University violated a student’s privacy when a virtual proctor required a webcam scan of the student’s room before a remote test, a federal judge ruled Monday. Philip Calabrese ruled , however, that the student had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his home. Hide by line?:

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Educause

APRIL 10, 2023

Joe Potchanant, Director of the EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Program, talks about new directions for the program, his background, and his ideas about how institutions of all types can best meet the challenges around keeping data safe.

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Educause

OCTOBER 31, 2022

EDUCAUSE community members offer cybersecurity and privacy perspectives on the 2023 Top 10 IT Issues.

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Educause

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A comprehensive privacy bill has cleared a House committee for the first time, but its flaws on federal preemption and a private right of action may limit its prospects. The way the bill handles exceptions for existing laws is also concerning for higher education.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The post Opinion: How health privacy laws are hurting college students and their families appeared first on University Business. In addition to forcing students to reapply, the school also cut off students’ health insurance almost immediately and offered no accommodations for doing work from home. Read more from Deseret News.

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Educause

APRIL 10, 2023

Joe Potchanant, the new Director for the EDUCAUSE Cybersecurity and Privacy Program, talks about his ideas for making the program more effective for members and institutions.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 5, 2023

Several governors banned the app from state-owned devices over privacy concerns and China. Some public institutions are following suit.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2023

The proposed $6 million fine, which awaits a final ruling, comes one year after Human Rights Watch uncovered how Edmodo and other online learning products authorized by governments during the Covid-19 pandemic infringed on children’s privacy.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 27, 2024

Due to mounting concerns about internet security and user privacy, data collection presents a significant challenge for educational marketers, decreasing the reliability of tools like Cookies. This helps us deal with discrepancies and data gaps that can happen due to ad blockers and other privacy softwares.”

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Educause

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To address privacy, accessibility, and affordability issues, the University of Michigan decided to develop closed generative AI tools for use by its campus community.

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Educause

APRIL 17, 2024

In early 2024, the Senate garnered enough support to potentially pass the Kids Online Safety Act—a major privacy law focused on content moderation for minors.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MARCH 27, 2024

Due to mounting concerns about internet security and user privacy, data collection presents a significant challenge for educational marketers, decreasing the reliability of tools like Cookies. This helps us deal with discrepancies and data gaps that can happen due to ad blockers and other privacy softwares.”

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

Privacy: CIOs and their network teams will need to master the art of communicating the benefit of AI being implemented across networks while reassuring the campus that adequate steps have been taken to ensure data privacy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School, has had a storied career in the fields of law, bioethics, data protection, and privacy. I would say that I work primarily in the area of data protection and privacy law. There are privacy issues around choice,” Allen says.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Several school districts and universities have pulled the plug and banned the use of the app amidst data privacy concerns. “The biggest problem is its aggressive privacy violation policy,” he says. Its default privacy settings allow the app to collect substantially more information than the app actually needs to function.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

As GenAI tools continue to advance, there is a need to address concerns related to data privacy, security, and the responsible use of these technologies in educational settings. Secondly, continuous and regular investigations are required to explore the ethical considerations and potential limitations of these fast-changing technologies.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Research from EDUCAUSE points to a critical culprit hurting higher education’s ability to nourish its cybersecurity defenses and protect its privacy: adequate staffing. Moreover, 60% said there were “some” or “a lot” of adverse effects on privacy services provided.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2024

Please read the NEOED Privacy Policy for more details. The post 10 Best Practices to Improve Operational Efficiency in Education HR appeared first on University Business.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2023

9-12 at Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center (and online Oct. 18-19), the EDUCAUSE annual conference will feature programming on higher education IT issues and offer opportunities to see innovative technology at work.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Please read the Archer Education Privacy Policy for more details. The post Building Operational Excellence in Online Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Leadership appeared first on University Business.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

By Kate Hidalgo Bellows. The death of a professor last month brought renewed scrutiny to Ferpa, which faculty members say was used as justification for keeping them in the dark about violent threats.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

How do you balance the need to intervene with respecting the privacy of online students? Faculty members must understand how to respect the privacy of online students while ensuring a safe learning environment. They should be familiar with online privacy laws and institutional policies related to virtual education.

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Campus Technology

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Nonprofit higher education association Educause recently conducted a study of 350 cybersecurity and privacy professionals in July 2023. The study report outlines concerns of those professionals and shows a growing dissatisfaction with training, work conditions, and time constraints.

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Campus Technology

JULY 26, 2023

In addition to basic computer science, data competencies, and the mathematics and statistics behind AI and machine learning, there are a range of social impacts to consider: AI risk, ethics, privacy, questions of bias, etc.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It incorporates everything from national security to information security and privacy. Where the First Amendment and national security meet. This semester I am teaching a course entitled Law, Policy and Politics of Cybersecurity. This morning when I read about the appellate decision in the Missouri v.

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MindMax

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Certain limitations of GA4 , along with digital marketing trends such as the phasing out of third-party cookies and an increased emphasis on privacy, make it more challenging to acquire data in the student enrollment journey. In other words: now is the time to get comfortable acting with incomplete data.

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Campus Technology

AUGUST 30, 2023

OpenAI has announced the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, offering "enterprise-grade security and privacy, unlimited higher-speed GPT-4 access, longer context windows for processing longer inputs, advanced data analysis capabilities, customization options, and much more" for organizations that integrate the tool into their business operations.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

How do you balance the need to intervene with respecting the privacy of online students? Faculty members must understand how to respect the privacy of online students while ensuring a safe learning environment. They should be familiar with online privacy laws and institutional policies related to virtual education.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Please read the Archer Education Privacy Policy for more details. The post Overcoming the Top 5 Roadblocks to Online Enrollment Growth appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Please read the Promethean Privacy Policy for more details. Learn how IFPDs can enhance: Student engagement and motivation Hybrid learning environments The flexible, free-form campus Workforce training and preparation By submitting your contact information you are agreeing to receive communications from Promethean.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Note also that the new policy recommends removing TikTok from personal devices to protect a person’s privacy there as well. From a security and privacy perspective, that does raise concerns, absolutely. … which makes it much more difficult to ensure the security and privacy and how that information is being handled."

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

“I think there’s obviously a recognition that the tech industry is not as diverse as it needs to be at all levels, whether you’re talking about developers, cybersecurity professionals or privacy…

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