#student data privacy

[insightfultake]

Websites Selling CUET & NEET Student Data Raise Privacy Concerns

Millions of students trusted the system with their personal information. That trust now faces serious questions as candidate data is reportedly being sold online.

[skolaro-blog]

The Biggest Privacy Concerns For Edtech | Skolaro

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Data breach early this year is still fresh in everyone's mind. Technology is advancing rapidly in education sector too and protecting student data in schools is a matter of utmost importance but the edtech companies have certain concerns. Lawmakers and school district leaders are making policies which come down hard on the ed-tech companies to protect student data privacy. Whereas, the investors in these companies are least concerned with the student data privacy protection as they feel that this hinders innovation and creation. There is lack of uniform policies on student data privacy at federal, state and local levels resulting in the edtech companies, parents and schools seldom being on the same platform on this. When edtech companies change ownership it is not necessary that student data will be part of the deal. The data is a part of a student's profile and unless it has been erased, this data is available even after graduation. Edtech com

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[insideedtech-blog]

Three resources that may give online education services/apps vendors the hives...

These three links may change the way you think about what you recommend and how you acquire cloud services and apps:

The U.S. Department of Education's Privacy Assistance Technical Center and especially this document...

The CoSN Protecting Privacy in Connected Learning ToolKit

Fordham University School Of Law's Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Schools