Privacy and Internet and Web Applications

The Congressional Internet Caucus is a bipartisan group of over 170 members of the House and Senate working to educate their colleagues about the promise and potential of the Internet. EDUCAUSE is a member of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, which includes a diverse group of public interest, nonprofit, and industry groups working to educate Congress and the public about important Internet-related policy issues. This session will highlight the priority IT policy issues before the 110th Congress according to the cochairs of the Internet Caucus and provide an overview of the Advisory Committee’s programs and activities.

Many institutions have developed a privacy approach for their legacy and business systems. For third-party hosted applications, institutions may have a contract in place that specifies privacy requirements. What we don’t have a grip on are the web-based collaborative applications, such as wikis and blogs, where we neither have a comprehensive policy nor a contract to govern privacy or data use. What are the privacy pitfalls and requirements for each of these three categories? This session will explore case studies of various models in place across higher education.