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Academic Privacy
      
Date Article Title Publication Author Synopsis
6/24/2009 Audit faults privacy, purchase contros on U.Md campus The Washington Examiner Leah Fabel Thousands of confidential student records were found to be vulnerable to exposure at the University of Maryland's University College.
6/16/2009 Brown seeks overhaul of student privacy law Columbus Dispatch Jill Riepenhoff Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) says universities are misusing the law to shield non-academic information. 
4/23/2009 Hey, Kids, Leave Stephen Breyer's Underwear Alone! Reason Online Jacob Sullum The Supreme Court heard arguments about the circumstances in which it is constitutional for public school officials to strip-search a 13-year-old girl.  
4/23/2009 Strip-searches on trial Los Angeles Times Editorial The Supreme Court is weighing whether such searches violate students' rights.
4/22/2009 Court Debates Strip Search of Student New York Times Adam Liptak The United States Supreme Court spent an hour debating what middle school students are apt to put in their underwear and what should be done about it.
4/21/2009 Supreme Court hears case of strip-searched schoolgirl  Christian Science Monitor Warren Richey It heard arguments on whether Arizona school officials violated Fourth Amendment privacy rights in strip-searching a 13-year-old girl.
4/20/2009 Unreasonable Search New York Times   The court hears arguments in a suit brought on behalf of a 13-year-old girl who was strip-searched based on a fellow student's false report that she had possessed ibuprofen pain-relief pills.
4/7/2009 Student privacy bill spurs debate in Augusta Bangor Daily News Mal Leary Maine students, parents and educators yesterday urged lawmakers to consider banning the Department of Education (DOE) practice of collecting and storing students' disciplinary histories in a database.
3/17/2009 Bingham Data Breach Threatens CISO's Position Information Week Thomas Claburn The discovery of boxes of documents containing students' personal information in an unsecured area has prompted Binghamton University students to circulate a petition calling for the removal of the chief information security officer (CISO).
3/9/2009 What's behind the rash of university data breaches? Computerworld Jay Cline Since 2001 there have been more than 300 publicized privacy incidents at U.S. higher learning institutions.
1/6/2009 Ed. Dept. Releases New Rules on Privacy Education Week   New regulations in the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) take effect.
12/9/2008 Education Department Reworks Privacy Regulations Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Bernstein The U.S. Department of Education will release new Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations today.
11/29/2008 You're leaving a digital trail.  What about privacy? New York Times John Markoff One hundred M.I.T students have traded privacy for smartphones in a new experiment.
11/21/2008 A Wealth of Data, and Nobody in Charge The Chronicle of Higher Education Lisa Guernsey Despite the wealth of private information higher-education institutions house, they are behind the curve when it comes protecting it. 
11/20/2008 Texas A&M International professor fired for publishing names of accused plagiarizers The Daily Toreador Matt Cobb A Texas A&M International University professor was fired earlier this month for allegedly violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
10/31/2008 Security initiative to require scanning of all university computers Daily Collegian Mike Ramsingh Officials at Penn State University are stepping up privacy protections. The campus-wide Information Privacy and Security (IPAS) project requires that all university-owned computers be scanned for malware and other security compromises. 
9/27/2008 Student Privacy Spotlighted in VA Washington Post Brigid Schulte Manassas, Virginia officials last week agreed to pay $775,000 in damages and attorneys' fees for the improper disclosure of students' personal information in 2005.
8/18/2008 Breach on Princeton Review Site Exposed Students' Data New York Times Brad Stone The test scores and personal information of more than 100,000 students was published on The Princeton Review's Web site and remained there for seven weeks.
8/6/2008 NMMU Privacy Breached The Herald Rochelle de Kock  Officials at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) are investigating the easy accessibility of students' personal information on the Internet. By entering a student's e-mail address and date of birth, Web users can gain access to financial statements, academic records and exam timetables.
7/4/2008 Increase in Stolen Laptops Endangers Data Security The Chronicle of Higher Education Andrea L. Foster Colleges and universities around the nation are beefing up policies to help prevent security lapses resulting from laptop thefts. So far this year laptop thefts are believed to have been the cause of at least six security breaches involving the personal information of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. 
6/16/2008 U.S. School District to Begin Mcrochipping Students Natural News David Gutierrez Forget cargo capris and smock tops, some Rhode Island school children will begin wearing radio frequency identification (RFID) chips to school each day as part of a pilot program in the Middletown School District. 
6/11/2008 State to study student privacy policies Reformer.com Howard Weiss-Tisman Vermont education officials will review policies related to student privacy at the Board of Education meeting next week. Officials will debate policies on information suppression, third-party research requests for student data and obtaining student information. 
5/5/2008 Officials Discuss the Importance of Privacy in Online Class Discussions Wired Campus Jeffrey Young At a conference for campus security officials, a Boston College administrator said that online class discussions affect the privacy of students.
5/4/2008 I Know What You Did Last Math Class The New York Times Jan Hoffman A New York Times article highlighting the benefits and disadvantages of software that lets parents monitor their kids' every scholastic move shows that while programs such as ParentConnect help keep parents "in the loop" on their sons' or daughters' daily experiences and stimulate communications among parents and teachers, many students find the technology invades their privacy. 
4/16/2008 Virginia Tech served as warning on campus privacy Chicago Tribune Stevenson Swanson Since the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech one year ago this week, college administrators nationwide have expanded efforts designed to identify students who are potentially troubled, while federal officials, educators and legal experts have worked to simplify the privacy laws that, according to a VA state panel report after the tragedy, caused "widespread confusion" among educators about appropriate disclosure of students' personal information.
4/9/2008 Professors have access to student financial records The Lantern Angela Henderson Professors at Ohio State University have access to student financial records, according to campus newspaper The Lantern. The professors have access under the state's Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which does not distinguish between academic and financial information, allowing instructors to determine if students are attending classes for which they have not paid. 
3/25/2008 After Campus Shootings, U.S. to Ease Privacy Rules New York Times Tamar Lewin The 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act could soon undergo a makeover if new proposed regulations by the Federal Education Department take hold.
3/20/2008 Data security top tech issue for colleges USA Today Marisol Bello An Educause survey of more than 500 college and universities shows that security and privacy are the top technology-related concerns for the schools. 
3/12/2008 Ryerson Student cheered at expulsion hearing Globe and Mail James Bradshaw Ryerson University officials will decide the fate of a first-year student accused of helping classmates cheat via an online study group. 
2/28/2008 Bill aims to shield student privacy Diamondback Online Megan Eckstein The Maryland state legislature is considering a change to its laws that would allow schools to deny requests by private companies for student information, according to the University of Maryland student newspaper.
2/28/2008 Bill aims to shield student privacy Diamondback Online Megan Eckstein The Maryland state legislature is considering a change to its laws that would allow schools to deny requests by private companies for student information, according to the University of Maryland student newspaper.
1/13/2008 Donor Privacy At Issue With University of Virginia The Daily Progress Brian McNeill Officials with the University of Virginia have asked that state's legislature to exempt it from provisions of the Freedom of information Act in order to help it maintain the privacy of 450,000 potential donors contained within a highly detailed database.
1/13/2008 Donor Privacy At Issue With University of Virginia The Daily Progress Brian McNeill Officials with the University of Virginia have asked that state's legislature to exempt it from provisions of the Freedom of information Act in order to help it maintain the privacy of 450,000 potential donors contained within a highly detailed database.
12/6/2007 FERPA Exception Allows Universities To Notify Parents Of Student Drug, Alcohol Abuse The Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Bernstein Colleges and universities are taking advantage of a provision added in 1998 to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 that allows schools to contact parents if a student under 21 is accused of an alcohol or drug violation. 
12/6/2007 FERPA Exception Allows Universities To Notify Parents Of Student Drug, Alcohol Abuse The Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Bernstein Colleges and universities are taking advantage of a provision added in 1998 to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 that allows schools to contact parents if a student under 21 is accused of an alcohol or drug violation. 
10/25/2007 Judge:  Educational Privacy Law Not Sufficient to Block RIAA's Sobpenas ARS Technica Eric Bangeman A University of Tennessee student had tried to prevent the release of his name, address and phone number to the Recording Industry Association of America, contending in part that he had not waived his right to privacy under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). 
10/25/2007 Judge:  Educational Privacy Law Not Sufficient to Block RIAA's Sobpenas ARS Technica Eric Bangeman A University of Tennessee student had tried to prevent the release of his name, address and phone number to the Recording Industry Association of America, contending in part that he had not waived his right to privacy under the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). 
10/14/2007 Student privacy murky in tech world dailycamera.com Amy Bounds The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is opposing a recent incident in which administrators at a Colorado high school seized students' cell phones to read and record the contents of their text messages.
10/10/2007 Student who disclosed security breach to campus paper barely escapes from expulsion ComputerWorld Jaikumar Vijayan A student has escaped punishment for turning over to a campus newspaper a file containing personal information that he found on a publicly accessible server at Western Oregon University.
 
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