Data Privacy Issues: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities

Data Privacy Issues: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities
This paper offers a broad overview of the data privacy protection regime, as it applies to institutions of higher education. Part I provides an overview of the U.S. and international data privacy protection framework. Part II offers suggestions regarding ensuring compliance and minimizing risk of data breach. Finally, Part III provides some guidelines for handling a data breach, if one occurs.
Access the Microsoft Word version of this resource here: http://www.higheredcompliance.org/resources/publications/Data-Privacy-Issues1.doc

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