In my work at a large school district I spend much of my time testing education technology products to make sure that they are safe, secure and private. I read a lot of privacy policies and regularly push back on vendors to hold them accountable for what their policy say and their products do. In […]
Digging Deeper into FERPA Directory Information
Earlier this month Bill Fitzgerald posted a thoughtful piece on potential issues with FERPA’s “Directory Information” exception among the excellent points made were that there is disconnect between what FERPA data that would not generally be considered harmful if released and how if a another organization unintentionally released this type of data (name, email, address, […]
