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- FPF Perspectives
Voice Assistants in the Classroom: Useful Tool or Privacy Problem?
Nov 18, 2018Susan BeardenLearn MoreVoice assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home are used by consumers to help automate common tasks such as home heating and lighting, listening to music,…
- LEA Perspectives
Sniffers and Snoopers and Hackers, Oh My! Protecting Yourself from the Risks of Public Wi-Fi
Sep 20, 2018Susan BeardenLearn MorePublic Wi-Fi hotspots can put your personal data at risk, and in this post we’ll discuss some of these risks and how to protect yourself against them.
- FPF Perspectives
3 Easy Steps for Educators to Make a Secure Passphrase
Sep 20, 2018Susan BeardenLearn MoreLearn how to create a good passphrase, and, more importantly, how to create different passphrases across different websites/apps that you can actually remember.
- EdTech Perspectives
3 Easy Ways for Educators to Keep Online Accounts Secure
Sep 20, 2018Susan BeardenLearn MoreIn June of 2017, NIST issued new password guidelines. Learn how you can use the new guidelines to keep your online accounts secure.
- FPF Perspectives
FBI Highlights Security Risks for Student Data: What Parents, Schools, and Policymakers Need to Know
Sep 13, 2018Sara Collins, Tyler Park, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreNow that the FBI has focused attention on cyber threat concerns related to K-12 students, policymakers must step up and fund impactful security programs.
- FPF Perspectives
Parents: Raise Your Hand and Ask Schools How They Protect Student Data
Sep 10, 2018Sara Collins, Tyler Park, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreAs you send your child off to start a new school year, you may have questions about how your child's teachers are using new technologies, such as tablets, comp…
- What We're Reading
What We’re Reading: Higher Ed News (Feb – July 2018)
Jul 12, 2018Sara Collins, Erika Ross, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreBeyond our "Top 10," FPF's student privacy newsletter includes many, many other stories. Below are the Higher Ed stories we found important over the last few m…
- What We're Reading
What We’re Reading: K-12 News (Feb – July 2018)
Jul 12, 2018Sara Collins, Tyler Park, Erika Ross, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreBeyond our "Top 10," FPF's student privacy newsletter includes many, many other stories. Below are the K-12 stories we found important over the last few months.
- What We're Reading
The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb – July 2018)
Jul 12, 2018Sara Collins, Tyler Park, Erika Ross, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreThe Future of Privacy Forum tracks student privacy news very closely, and shares relevant news stories with our newsletter subscribers. Approximately every mon…
- FPF Perspectives
FPF Testifies Before Federal Commission on School Safety
Jul 11, 2018Sara Collins, Tyler Park, Erika Ross, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreJohn Verdi, the Future of Privacy Forum’s Vice President of Policy, testified today before the Federal Commission on Student Safety meeting, “Curating a Health…
- FPF Perspectives
New Study on “the Marketplace for Student Data”
Jun 7, 2018Sara Collins, Stacey Gray, Tyler Park, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreFordham University’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) just released the study, “Transparency and the Marketplace for Student Data,” which examines t…
- FPF Perspectives
Ensuring School Safety While Also Protecting Privacy
Jun 7, 2018Sara Collins, Tyler Park, and Amelia VanceLearn MoreAmelia Vance, FPF’s Director of Education Privacy, spoke at the Federal Commission on Student Safety’s Listening Session. She asked that any Commission recomme…
