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National Governors Association is pushing for state reform of cyber security laws because:
The National Governor’s Association initiative, Meet the Threat, calls for:
Washington State University kept sensitive personal information on a backup disk locked in a $159 safe in a small safe in a storage unit.
The WSU storage unit was burlagized, and was the only unit burgalarized.
The takeaway for policy makers: Do not allow state institutions to store personal data in storage units.
Common sense governing. Better late than never.
A court in Vermont ruled that the State Agency of Education must release school bullying information it has collected under the public information act.
The advocates: Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
The toolkit for parents to empower them on student data privacy: toolkit
What’s the target: data privacy policies of school districts and ed tech companies
Education Week | New Student Data Privacy Toolkit Encourages Parent Advocacy
How the Spring Branch School District school was hacked: with a stolen password
What did the hacker do once in the SBISD computer system: changed grades
Was the hacker caught?
SC Media | Texas 10th grader hacks school network to change grades
Wyoming legislature had a package of student data privacy bills which will:
State: California
The student data security bill: Removes schools from the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Where would student daat security responsibility lie? each school district
The profferred reasons why: Cyber bullying, schools need access to student electronic use
Record Bee | Bill would strip privacy protections from students and teachers
What screams fix cybersecurity laws? A breach of a voice recording teddy bear
What’s the issue that would be addresed in legislation? The Teddy Bear company stored customer data and information on a public database that required no authentication.
What does no authentication mean? No security protocols, no passwords, no limited IP addresses etc… It’d be like leaving your credit card statement on a public park bench.
TechHive | Smart teddy bears for kids suffer a contentious data breach
The Public Private Partnership: Virginia and Amazon
The role of Amazon: to support scalable cloud infrastructure and collaborate on cybersecurity educational efforts
How far down the state employee food chain will education go? The partnership will also help educate teachers with cybersecurity courseware
Train teachers in cybersecurity. Make data security part of the faculty and administrator school culture.
In 2013, 400 school data security bills were considered.
Only 1, Colorado’s, included teacher training.