{"id":139,"date":"2015-03-24T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/03\/24\/education-apps-make-student-data-security-vulnerable\/"},"modified":"2015-03-24T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:13:00","slug":"education-apps-make-student-data-security-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/education-apps-make-student-data-security-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Apps Make Student Data Security Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of information can hackers get from a student&#8217;s education app?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>first name, middle initial, last name,<\/li>\n<li>gender<\/li>\n<li>date of birth<\/li>\n<li>parent email address<\/li>\n<li>name and address of school<\/li>\n<li>usernames (some with associated passwords)<\/li>\n<li>teacher email addresses<\/li>\n<li>teacher and class roster affiliations<\/li>\n<li>class photos with students labeled by name,<\/li>\n<li>in-class behavior records,<\/li>\n<li>reading level and progress assessments, and math skill and progress assessments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An identity could easily be created with this information, which sparked\u00a0Congress to address the situation with the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/n\/2015-03-23-representatives-propose-legislation-to-protect-student-data-privacy\">\u00a0Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>States can address the situation by requiring data security protocols on stored student data and for third party education software and apps. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/n\/2015-03-23-why-student-data-security-matters\">EdSurge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of information can hackers get from a student&#8217;s education app?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>first name, middle initial, last name,<\/li>\n<li>gender<\/li>\n<li>date of birth<\/li>\n<li>parent email address<\/li>\n<li>name and address of school<\/li>\n<li>usernames (some with associated passwords)<\/li>\n<li>teacher email addresses<\/li>\n<li>teacher and class roster affiliations<\/li>\n<li>class photos with students labeled by name,<\/li>\n<li>in-class behavior records,<\/li>\n<li>reading level and progre&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-student-data-privacy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}