Chicago Public Schools accidentally released personal information on 4,000 students to 5 potential vendors.
Chicago Public Schools assures the public that social security numbers were not released by the inadvertant data breach.
Category Archives: student data privacy
Student Data Breach: Names, Addresses & Social Security Numbers
A school district in Ohio suffered a data breach that exposed the names, addresses and social security numbers of students. The hacker? a student, who shared the information.
Young adult data is very valuable on the black market, because the identity is freely adaptable.
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Education Testing Companies are being accused of spying on student facebook, twitter, and instagram accounts. The companies are going so far as requiring that information, such as exam information, posted by students be removed. Education companies insist they do not spy on students, but rather track certain terms.
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What kind of information can hackers get from a student’s education app? An April meeting of attorneys general will focus on data security issues. This comes in the wake of Connecticut AG forming a data privacy division and the attorneys general in NY, OR and WA recommending legislative changes to address data security.
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To handle data breach investigations and litigation, the Connecticut Attorney General created a Privacy and Data Security Department. The Department emerged from a 2011 task force studying how the state can best address data breaches, and is staffed with a ” cross-disciplinary team of experts in health, finance and other disciplines.” Data privacy is the new frontier for property rights. People fiercely want to protect their personal data. It gets tricky when the person trying to protect their data is a public school teacher. A parent in Virginia sued to have teacher evaluations released. The first court sided with the parent to allow for the release of teacher evaluations. The suit is on appeal. Teacher groups refer to the release of evaluations as an invasion of privacy. It’ll be fought to the Suprem… A student at the Univeristy of Oregon, Go Ducks!, alleges she was raped by 3 basketball players. The University found the sudents at fault and kicked them out of school and off the basketball team. After the alleged rape, the student sought treatment at the student health center. Her treatment included mental health care. She eventually sued the school as the alleged offenders were never tried for a crime. During the lawsuit her mental health records, when she sought care … The Data Quality Campaign joined the Consortium for School Networking to set forth principles to guide student data regulation. The goal is to protect student data while doing no harm to schools. 4 points they all agree on:The 5 Federal Data Breach Bills Circling
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HIPPA and Higher Education Student Data Privacy Collide in Lawsuit
4 Student Data Principles. Supported by 32 Education Groups.