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Piazza Makes Three Significant Changes To Deal With Privacy Issues

By Phil Hill. Posted on December 21, 2016

In this live case study in ed tech and student privacy that is unfolding before us, Piazza makes some changes in response to recent criticism of their practices.

University Responses to Piazza: Some good, some bad, some web site changes

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 21, 2016

After our reporting from Nov 10 on “Popular Discussion Platform Piazza Getting Pushback For Selling Student Data”, I was invited by Piazza CEO Pooja Sankar to visit the Piazza offices. During my visit, we had an open conversation where I got to meet pretty much the entire staff and have a direct conversation with Sankar […]

Piazza Response To Blog Post On Student Privacy

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 13, 2016

Based on Thursday’s blog post “Popular Discussion Platform Piazza Getting Pushback For Selling Student Data”, Piazza’s CEO Pooja Sankar invited me to meet at their offices Friday afternoon. Given the nature of Thursday’s post, I offered to publish any statement that Piazza had in response here at e-Literate, an offer they accepted. I will defer further […]

Popular Discussion Platform Piazza Getting Pushback For Selling Student Data

By Phil Hill. Posted on November 10, 2016

Update– Please see follow-on posts addressing changes since this post: Nov 13, 2016: “Piazza Response To Blog Post On Student Privacy” Nov 21, 2016: “University Responses to Piazza: Some good, some bad, some web site changes” Dec 21, 2016: “Piazza Makes Three Significant Changes To Deal With Privacy Issues” Piazza is a collaborative question-and-answer platform […]

Empowering Students in Open Research

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on February 2, 2016

Phil and I will be writing a twice-monthly column for the Chronicle’s new Re:Learning section. In my inaugural column, “Muy Loco Parentis,” I write about how schools make data privacy decisions on behalf of the students that the students wouldn’t make for themselves, and that may even be net harmful for the students. In contrast […]

Policy Updates on FERPA and Net Neutrality

By Phil Hill. Posted on May 15, 2014

Two policy debates that could have a significant impact on education – updates on FERPA and data privacy & FCC proposals on Net Neutrality – both entered the next stage this week. FERPA Modernization I recently wrote about the new federal moves to update FERPA to handle the age of Big Data (should I have used […]

White House report on big data will impact ed tech

By Phil Hill. Posted on May 2, 2014

Yesterday the White House released its report on big data and privacy implications. The focus was broadly on big data, but there will be implications for ed tech, with several key recommendations specifically focused on the education sector. Specifically, there will be a push to update and revise the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA, […]

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