CEO and Founder of Student Data Privacy Services
A Unique and Practical Way of Looking at Student Data Privacy
Most of the fear associated with student privacy centers around the ‘hacker’ and the ‘marketer’ as unknown forces stealing information and using it for their own benefit.
However, privacy risks are often much closer to home and exist even within the trusted environment of a classroom. An app or website that improperly measures or inappropriately shares student performance could trigger humiliation, unfair treatment, or doom a student to years of improper categorization.
Much of the discussion around student privacy is laden with jargon, references to legislation, and quite academic. This type of discussion makes it hard to actually implement in schools as it seems far-removed and impractical.
Hence, we at Student Data Privacy Services have created a unique model – called the Seven Privacy Sins – to translate the complex concepts of student privacy into something more human and practical.
I hope that this model helps you better understand what everyone is really trying to protect against and keep these seven sins in mind when implementing technology in the classroom. The benefits of classroom technology can be amazing, lets all just be sure that we do no harm in the process.
The Seven Privacy Sins
IMPROPER CONTACT
Thou must not allow creepers to contact your students.
IDENTITY THEFT
Tis hard enough to find oneself without someone else being you, too.
UNWANTED MARKETING
One can learn about little blue pills after finishing high school.
HUMILIATION
A singular private failure shall not invite public ridicule.
UNFAIR TREATMENT
Labels shall describe the present and not predetermine the future.
PERMANENT RECORD
Let us forgive and forget and encourage redemption and reinvention.
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
Take down the pictures and don’t leave a footprint.
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Student Data Privacy Services helps districts protect student data privacy by evaluating the business model, privacy policy, privacy practices and technical security of apps and websites used in the districts' classrooms.
These risks are evaluated across the Seven Privacy Sins™, a holistic model that goes beyond the fear of a data breach or unwanted marketing by evaluating risks within the schools as well as outside the schools. Student Data Privacy Services is a valued partner to schools, parents and service providers who all have a vested interest in protecting students while online.
Learn more at studentdataprivacy.com.
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