Top stories published by Student Privacy Initiative in 2015

Almost everyone I know has, at some point, googled themselves. Whether by the newsworthiness or by the uniqueness of our names (in my case, the latter), we’ve all bragged to each other about how high up we appear in the search pages for our names — or, in some cases…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Dec 3, 2015

Case for the Classroom

“Claire, do you still think you may want to be a professor?” my friend asks me as we pick at our lunches in the dining hall. We planned to have lunch together, but we’re accompanied by our laptops. I’m vigorously typing away at a paper, while she’s live-streaming her history lecture…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Nov 19, 2015

This Week in Student Privacy: 11/18

Using Data for Both Personalized Learning and Large-Scale Evaluation

According to US News, “students can make big academic gains if enrolled in schools that offer personalized ways to learn, especially when teachers have access to effective…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Nov 5, 2015

This Week in Student Privacy: 9/22

In Oregon, Legislators Seek to Protect Student Privacy in Legal Disputes

On Thursday, “members of Oregon’s congressional delegation released a draft a bill […], aimed at protecting the privacy of students when they are involved in a legal…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Nov 4, 2015

This Week in Student Privacy: 9/01

“Internet Association” Calls Privacy Bill Too Broad

The Internet Association, a lobbying group that “represents Google, Reddit, Uber and a wide array of other tech companies,” said Thursday in a letter that the requirements of a new student…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Nov 30, 2015

This Week in Student Privacy: 11/25

The US Education Department’s Vulnerable Databases

At a House oversight hearing, “the department came under withering criticism […] about just how vulnerable its information systems are to security threats.” At the hearing on November 17…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Dec 4, 2015

Breakthrough

Considering robots in the classroom

The important and growing presence of technology in classrooms has given rise to some fear that education technology — a combination of applications, tablets, robots, smartboards, data analytics, and the like — will…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Nov 5, 2015

This Week in Student Privacy: 10/20

California Updates Data-Breach Notification Protocols

“On October 6, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of three bills making significant amendments to California’s Data Breach Notification Statute.” The changes enacted address…

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Dec 2, 2015

Newfound Interest

Practical ways of raising awareness

CLICK. CLICK. Google is the master of search. It tracks our moves online and uses complex algorithms to predict our next click. Let’s see how good they are. Below is their profile of my “interests”:

Berkman SPI in Student Privacy Initiative

Nov 4, 2015

This Week in Student Privacy: 9/15

80,0000 California Students’ Data Compromised

In California, “a data breach […] exposed the the personal information of nearly 80,000 students.” The students “had information such as their login names, course passwords, campus email addresses…

These were the top 10 stories published by Student Privacy Initiative in 2015. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2015 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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