Tracking: EDU Select News Coverage/Commentary The Information on School Websites Is Not as Safe as You Think The home page of Pinellas County Schools in Florida is brimming with information for families, students, staff members and the public: an easy-to-use dashboard of news, shortcuts and links to the district’s Facebook page, Twitter feed and YouTube […]
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New Study of School Websites Reveals Widespread Online Security and Privacy Issues FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Doug Levin, President dlevin@edtechstrategies.com 202-556-3684 Arlington, VA (January 31, 2018) – According to a new study released today by EdTech Strategies, Tracking: EDU – Education Agency Website Security and Privacy Practices, state and local education agency websites were found to […]
Tracking: EDU Part IV: Implications & Action Steps Based on automated and manual reviews conducted over 4 months (between October 2017 and January 2018) of every state department of education website and a nationwide sample of 159 school district websites, Tracking: EDU found that: Most state and local education agency websites do not support secure browsing, putting both […]
Tracking: EDU Part I: Introduction When parents, educators, students, researchers, reporters, and other members of the public have questions about education, one of the first places they turn to are school, school district, and state department of education websites. For those members of the public with even moderate technology skills and access to the web—even […]
Tracking: EDU Part IV: Privacy Policies While policies vary across states, members of the public have a reasonable expectation to know what information is being collected about them by state and local public agencies – including state departments of education and school districts – as well as to know the rights they may have to […]
Tracking: EDU Part III: Ad Tracking & Surveillance There are important reasons for website administrators—including of government and school websites—to have limited insights into their users’ experiences. Yet, not all tracking and surveillance technology on the web is the same, and its unfettered and unregulated use should raise important questions. Indeed, one defining characteristic of ad(vertising) […]
Tracking: EDU Part II: Secure Browsing Browsing websites via the insecure HTTP protocol allows third-parties to track what pages you view, the information you send online, to inject and deliver malware to users computers, and even to modify the content of the websites you are viewing. It is for this reason that leading internet security authorities […]
Tracking: EDU Education Agency Website Security and Privacy Practices A research project – in six parts – designed to shed light on state department of education and select school district website security and privacy practices. Press Release / Select News Coverage Part I: Introduction Part II: Secure Browsing Part III: Ad Tracking & Surveillance Part […]
