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Collegis Education Releases Tool to Analyze Enrollment Data
Collegis Education has released a free tool that visualizes data on trends in higher education. The company aims to help college administrators understand enrollment trends using the last decade’s...
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Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act Would Safeguard Data
As parents nationwide become more concerned with their kids’ data, Congressmen in Washington, DC are looking at how best to safeguard software-collected student data. A draft form of the Student...
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Cyber Attacks on US Universities Call for Focus on Data Security
A number of research universities across the United States are increasingly under threat of cyberattacks, most of which are thought to originate in China, with millions of hacking attempts occurring...
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Georgia Continues to Lead on Student Data Privacy
State School Superintendent Richard Woods announced this week that Georgia has appointed its first chief privacy officer, Levette Williams. Williams has stated that she will be training school...
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Harvard Announces Data Security Breach
Harvard University has announced that it experienced a data breach in June of this year in the IT systems of its Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Central Administration, which has so far affected 8...
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Internet Privacy, Safety Package Becomes Law in Delaware
Delaware Governor Jack Markell has signed into law four pieces of legislation that offer citizens and children in the state increased privacy and protection during their online excursions. Under the...
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US Dept of Ed Asks for Comments on Privacy, Student Records
The United States Department of Education has issued draft guidance in a ‘Dear Colleagues’ letter to schools across the nation concerning how student medical records should be treated on all college...
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Feds, Nearly Every State Concerned About Student Data Privacy
The issue of student data privacy has moved to the legislative forefront in the past year due to increasing concerns about how digital data is being used by schools, governments and third parties....
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Login App ‘Clever’ Used by a Third of Schools
You may not have heard of Clever, but chances are you know someone who’s using it. The little-known app Clever by a three-year-old startup is being used in 44,000 schools across the US, which amounts...
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8 Cal State Campuses Report Data Breach from Sexual Harassment Course
Students at eight Cal State campuses have had their data exposed after the breach of a class provider. Almost 80,000 students had their class passwords, sign-in names, campus email addresses, gender,...
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ACLU Says Massachusetts Schools Have Weak Data Privacy Policies
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (ACLU) has revealed that several schools in the state that employ digital technologies to monitor student performance and collect information about...
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Data Breach Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans’ Information
Hello Kitty’s website, Sanrio Town, which is also the online community for Hello Kitty fans, has been subject to a data breach that has leaked information belonging to more than 3 million users’...
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Data Breach at University of Central Florida Affects 60,000
The University of Central Florida has announced that a hacker entered their system, gaining access to 63,000 Social Security numbers belonging to both current and former students, as well as staff...
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Lawsuit From Parent Group Results in Student Privacy Mess
Because of a suit being brought against the state of California by a parent group, roughly 10 million students’ public-school records are about to be given to attorneys — and both parties in the suit...
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