Month: January 2018

Data Privacy Day 2018

Posted on January 26th, 2018 by Emily Ensign

On Sunday, we will celebrate Data Privacy Day—an awareness event focused on educating and arming individuals with the tools necessary to protect their online data and information from cybercriminals and hackers. As long as millions of users connect to the…

Last Year's Education Data Privacy Legislation Trends

Posted on January 17th, 2018 by Rachel Anderson

Over the past four years, student data privacy has been a hot topic for state legislators. In 2013 there was only one state bill explicitly focused on student data privacy. Since then there have been over 500! In 2017 alone,…

Keeping the Private Anonymous: 6 Keys for Protecting the Privacy of Your Students

Posted on January 17th, 2018 by Michael Luchies

This guest blog was submitted by After School--a social platform network for teens. In August 2017, a single error by an employee at a school in Cottage Grove, MN resulted in the release of the private information of over 9,000…

Digital Natives More Likely to Fall For Tech Support Scam

Posted on January 12th, 2018 by Eva Velasquez

There’s a pop culture stereotype about the elderly and computers, namely that the two don’t mix well. Many of today’s senior's were already adults in the work force when the home computer came along, meaning that they might have used…

iKeepSafe 2017 Year in Review

Posted on January 3rd, 2018 by Emily Ensign

2017 was full of exciting new resources and timely developments! iKeepSafe is proud to have spent the year working in partnership with many of you to provide a safe digital landscape for children, schools, and families by supporting the protection…

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