5 Ways Sloppy Campuses Can Clean out Personal Data

Autor/in	Read, Brock
Titel	5 Ways Sloppy Campuses Can Clean out Personal Data
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2007) 10, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Disabilities; Alumni; Public Policy; Computers; Access to Information; Information Technology; Identification; Educational Policy; College Students; Higher Education; Colorado; Massachusetts; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Handicap; Behinderung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Digitalrechner; Informationstechnologie; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	There was a time, not long ago, when students signed up to use Cornell University's rock-climbing wall by scribbling their Social Security numbers on a piece of paper tacked nearby. Steven J. Schuster remembers that era with a mixture of amusement and horror. An alarming number of personal records--many laced with Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about students, alumni, and employees--had made their way onto unprotected Cornell computers. Even long after they have stopped using Social Security numbers to identify people, Mr. Schuster says, colleges have to embark on "a very focused effort" to scrub unneeded and unsafe data from campus computers. Some ways of doing that are better than others. To highlight five "best practices" to clean up collegiate security, "The Chronicle" asked several IT officials who have made great strides in scrubbing Social Security data for their advice, which followed these themes: (1) Search high and low; (2) Keep only what you must; (3) Don't forget about alumni; (4) Don't forget about professors; and (5) Don't stop scrubbing. (Contains 1 table.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10