EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Privacy

"What challenges remain with this killer app? I suggest three: (1) user education, especially for adolescents and their parents; (2) new features connecting higher education's missions to the popular site; and (3) legal and policy considerations on a global scale."

The following is an excerpt from an interview with Bruce Schneier. Matt Pasiewicz, EDUCAUSE content program manager, conducted the interview at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference. The full podcast is available at <http://connect.educause.edu/blog/mpasiewicz/e07podcastaninterviewwith/45439>. In the interview, Schneier answers questions about security and privacy issues.

"When is higher education going to get serious about safeguarding the private information of students,
faculty, and staff?"

The higher education community, which has hosted many of the creators of the Internet and which has woven this technology into every aspect of education, now has a responsibility to work to defend an Internet policy framework based on user control, innovation, trust, and openness/competition.

Four factors of the Internet—technology, the market, the law, and social norms—offer a means to analyze the legal, policy, and educational considerations associated with the use of social networking technologies by today's college and university students.

This is the entire issue of EDUCAUSE Review Magazine, Volume 41, Number 5, September/October, 2006.

The authors provide an overview of this privacy and security focused EDUCAUSE Review issue.

Privacy management in higher education, a uniquely challenging effort, depends on senior management support, strategic partnerships, collaboration, and most important, the necessary skill set and the appropriate organizational placement of the Chief Privacy Officer or other privacy professional.

U.S. colleges and universities possess an exceptional volume and variety of personal information about students, employees, and others, yet they continue to lag behind industry, government, and higher education institutions in other countries in voluntarily protecting that information.