IQ Onsite, a company that provides mobile tools for constituent relationship management, has launched Campus Ping, a communication tool for educational institutions, with two new pilot programs.
A global non-profit research and development organization has taken on the challenge of how to identify when an active shooter situation has begun and how building occupants and public safety people should respond.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/16/15
A national non-profit working on online student safety has taken upon itself the work of creating a set of digital badges to identify education technology products that adhere to privacy laws.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/07/15
In the FTC complaint, the Electronic Frontier Foundation accused the search company of violating the terms of the Student Privacy Pledge, which it signed alongside 204 other companies.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/02/15
Two universities and a behavioral research and development firm will be working together on a five-year project to reduce high school violence.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/01/15
A frequent conflict that educators have with their IT departments is over access to content for students — content that's often being blocked at the behest of administrators and parents. And many IT directors are becoming less interested in being stuck in the middle.
Time Warner Cable Business Class has partnered with i-SAFE Ventures with the goal of making it easier for E-Rate schools to comply with the Children's Internet Protection Act.
An annual report published by the Georgia Institute of Technology examined the emerging cyber threats for the coming year, among them: ever-shrinking personal privacy, lackadaisical security considerations in the Internet of Things and a dearth of trained experts to stay on top of cybersecurity considerations for organizations.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 11/09/15
Technologies like single sign-on are convenient, but do they compromise the security and privacy of students' data?
The school system that suffered the worst school shooting ever in an elementary school is continuing to bolster its safety and security
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 10/08/15