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Op-ed: New FERPA ruling supports student privacy rights

Posted on February 28th, 2018 by Jacalyn Leavitt

[caption id="attachment_22135" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Adobe Stock via Deseret News[/caption] It took outraged parents and the U.S. Dept. of Education five years, but the DOE ruled on the side of families and protecting youth. A new FERPA judgment clarifies children’s digital…

Safer Internet Day: Bringing Parents & Educators Together To Keep Our Students Safe

Posted on February 6th, 2018 by Emily Ensign

Today is Safer Internet Day, an international education and awareness-raising effort. iKeepSafe has partnered with Safer Internet Day USA to help ensure individuals everywhere are able to reap the wonderful benefits of a connected Internet age, where creativity and technological…

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…

iKeepSafe Hosts the 2017 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference

Posted on December 29th, 2017 by Emily Ensign

The Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe) was proud to host the annual NICE K-12 Cybersecurity Education Conference at the Omni Nashville Hotel in Nashville, TN on December 4-5, 2017. The mission of this conference is to inspire a cybersecurity workforce…

The Cybersecurity Facts of Life

Posted on December 15th, 2017 by Eva Velasquez

There was once a time when having “the talk” with your kids meant an awkward conversation with your children about the birds and the bees. Now, however, “the talk” has evolved; it is not just about protecting their physical health…

Get Certified: iKeepSafe's Exclusive Cyber Monday Offer

Posted on November 27th, 2017 by Emily Ensign

**OFFER EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 15, 2018.** Take advantage of our Holiday deal! Sign up for an iKeepSafe FERPA assessment and certification and we will include our California certification at no additional cost. It’s nearly winter break for schools. During this…

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