To protect student data privacy, schools, districts, education software companies, and individual users must adhere to policies and practices that protect information from unauthorized access, misuse, or disclosure. Proper protection ensures that PII is collected, stored, used, and shared securely and ...
Early warnings over data protection With the education sector representing 14 per cent of all data breaches reported to the ICO in 2023 - second only to the health sector at 17 per cent - schools are clearly within the scope of this renewed focus. This means schools must pay particular a...
complain to the Office for the Protection of Personal Data of Spain (AEPD); and object to the processing of personal data that concern you. 6. How do we protect your personal data? We take our commitment to protect personal data very responsibly. We use SSL Encryption for all communicatio...
This database was not connected to Bonobo’s private data, which was siloed for protection. But threat actors could still exploit the stolen information. After the stolen data was dumped on a hacker forum, a threat actor claimed to have uncovered 158,000 hashed SHA-256 passwords. But the re...
“The FTC is taking bold actions to challenge the indiscriminate collection and monetization of consumers’ data,” said Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “We are securing meaningful remedie...
schoolseducationsurveillanceThe use of CCTV in schools is now commonplace in the UK. It is estimated that 85% of all UK secondary schools currently have CCTV systems in operation. The introduction of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) (enacted in March 2000) meant th...
Google brings Gemini AI 1.0 Pro to schools with Workspace for Education. And Chromebooks get new accessibility features.
parents and staff in the district’s ability to protect personal information. The LAUSD had to invest substantial resources into investigating the breach, enhancing their cybersecurity infrastructure, and providing support to affected individuals, including credit monitoring and identity theft protection ...
ID. Each student and teacher synced are also associated to one or more schools, which is written as another attribute on each user object. SDS uses this same information to create and manage several Security Groups, which has various administrative uses within Microsoft Entra ID and Office 365....
Protection against network-based threats: Schools are increasingly becoming prime targets for cyber threats, and network-based attacks can have severe consequences. If admins have access to adequate device and user data, they can spot signs of compromise or unusual activity. Compliance with regulations...