From: The Daily Princetonian
By Jacqueline Gufford • Staff Writer
Imagine a middle school student uses the word “terrorism” in an essay, and this essay’s transcript is stored indefinitely via a third-party vendor. Data mining flags the essay, and this results in an investigation of the student and the student’s family.
This scenario isn’t too far-fetched, Microsoft visiting professor of Information Technology Policy Joel Reidenberg argued in a lecture on schools and student data privacy.
Reidenberg is also a professor at Fordham Law School, an authority on Internet law, privacy and cybersecurity, and is the Founding Academic Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham.
As a precursor to his discussion on how to provide for greater student privacy, Reidenberg discussed factors that have led to the the “series of general failings” to protect student data across the nation.
Outsourcing, lack of transparency, vague contracts, outdated laws regarding the disclosure of student data and educational records, the reduction of IT costs and the recent push for data analysis of schools are to blame for new risks to student privacy, Reidenberg argued.
Particularly, Reidenberg dwelled on the “disturbing” contracts between school districts and vendors that supply IT services. Flaws in contracts include allowing vendors to make changes unilaterally, share information with third parties and store data without basic privacy and security measures, he said.
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