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Higher Education Voices: College Students’ Attitudes Toward Data Privacy

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Higher Education Voices: College Students’ Attitudes Toward Data Privacy October 25, 2021 Jasmine Park and Amelia Vance Future of Privacy Forum     Shared Under Creative Commons License Executive Summary A popular belief is that people who have grown up using digital technologies have little concern for the privacy of their data. This belief is particularly concerning because many in this age group live much of their academic and personal lives online, and some data holders have used this belief to justify inadequate privacy practices. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic forced many colleges and universities to transition to online learning, […]

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Student Privacy Primer

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Student Privacy Primer Juliana Cotto, Edith Mandinach, Amelia Vance, Jim Siegl, Anisha Reddy, Tyler Park, and Jasmine Parks This primer explains the concepts of student data, including who uses the data and why they use it; data privacy in general; student data privacy; student data privacy risks and harms; how student data privacy relates to data ethics and data equity; key federal privacy laws; key district and school policies; and what it means to foster a culture of privacy. Each of these sections and a concluding section list additional resources to help education stakeholders learn more about student data privacy.

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Youth Privacy and Data Protection 101

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Youth Privacy and Data Protection 101 April 1, 2021 Jasmine Park and Amelia Vance Future of Privacy Forum   Shared Under Creative Commons License It is estimated that one-third of global internet users are under the age of 18. As digital technologies increasingly mediate nearly all facets of their lives, including their education, young people encounter unique opportunities and risks online. It is imperative to ensure that well-meaning but perhaps rushed efforts to protect youth from risks do not significantly limit their access to valuable opportunities. Rather, these efforts must both protect and empower young people while allowing them to gradually develop

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Teaching privacy and ethical guardrails for the AI imperative in education

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Teaching Privacy and Ethical Guardrails for The AI Imperative in Education Evan Selinger & Amelia Vance Originally published by the NSW Department of Education Future EDge, Issue 3 December 2020 Introduction In 1956 computer scientist John McCarthy coined the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) to describe ‘the science and engineering of making intelligent machines’ (McCarthy, 2007). Over time, the term has evolved to cover a variety of technologies, including ones widely used in education, from plagiarism detectors to voice-activated virtual assistants leveraged to enhance campus information distribution and classroom pedagogy (Arizona State University, 2018). Contemporary AI discussions are about ‘a variety

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School Safety Measures Must Have Evidence, Be Specific, & Have Privacy and Equity Guardrails

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This week’s newsletter focuses on a new report from Human Rights Watch. I decided to write it because this report joins many others from student privacy advocates that focus nearly exclusively on commercialization risks.

When student privacy reports focus again and again on advertising technology as the major threat to student privacy, stakeholders overlook other insidious privacy harms. The likely result of the report will be a series of articles about how student privacy is in crisis and there are not enough laws and companies are bad. That may draw attention to this issue, but it also means that other really important student privacy issues could fall by the wayside.

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The Policymaker’s Guide to Student Data Privacy

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The Policymaker’s Guide to Student Data Privacy April 2019 Tyler Park, Sara Collins, and Amelia Vance Future of Privacy Forum       Shared Under Creative Commons License Table of Contents Add a header to begin generating the table of contents Download the PDF Introduction Schools have always collected a wide range of data—from enrollment information, to tracking student performance throughout the year, to health and disciplinary records—to allow teachers and school leaders to best serve every student. As all levels of education institutions take advantage of technology, such as vast libraries of resources, learning management systems, and tools that

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