Security data and Student Privacy

 

Student privacy is a big deal and protecting it is important. Students need to fill safe when roaming the internet and putting their personal information online. It is important because every company uses online data to gather information. For example, just about every job requires people to apply online and submit their personal information, such as social security number, name, mailing address, and date of birth. So, we must be extremely careful when online. Therefore, safeguarding the websites is important. “We argue that technological measures should provide transparency about data uses, provide accountability for algorithmic decisions, and ensure the security of learners’ data” (Reidenberg & Schaub, 2018). In the future, I can see how not honoring privacy can lead to additional fines and harsher sentences from the federal courts.

Students learning now comes from technology. They use certain apps to help them better understand the content. So, the apps that they use needs to be efficient and it needs to protect all their information. This is especially true when it comes to students with disabilities. There are laws that protect student privacy, that do help keep companies and organizations from breaking the privacy laws. “FERPA, passed in 1974, is the primary federal law protecting the confidentiality of public K-12 student data by prohibiting the sharing of students’ PII and educational records with third parties without parental consent” (Zimmerle, 2021). If educators do not honor the federal law, schools can be fined and possible law suites from families. Technology is not going away. It is enhancing and becoming a big part of education and our everyday lives.

 

References

Reidenberg, J., & Schaub, F. (2018). Achieving big data privacy in education. Theory and Research in Education, 16(3), 263-279. https://doi-org.ezproxy.liberty.edu/10.1177%2F1477878518805308

Zimmerle, J. C. (2021). Safe, sound, and private: Promoting data protection for students. Computers in the Schools, 38(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/07380569.2021.1882203

 

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