Jat Pannu, COO

Aegis Identity Software

SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2015

STUDENT DATA PRIVACY AND SECURITY IN A CONNECTED LEARNING WORLD

Jat Pannu, Chief Operating Officer, Aegis Identity

Over 20 years of technology and education experience

Former Education Technology and Student Data Lobbyist in New York State

Testified before the Senate and Assembly on Student Data Privacy and Security

Consulted and committee member for President Obama and the Executive Branch on Student Data Privacy

INTRODUCTION

AEGIS IDENTITY SOFTWAREEXPERTS IN IDENTITY AND DATA FOCUSED ON EDUCATION

• Aegis Identity is an education technology company that provides for the union of personal identity, data and applications to enable trust, transparency and control for each individual.

The amount of student data, applications and digital devices (the coming “tsunami”) continues to grow at accelerated rates

Schools, educators and Education Tech companies are at high risk for student data breaches; nearly 800 since 2005 and continuing to rise

Educators and IT organizations have limited knowledge of how data is being used and generated by applications and are ill prepared for FOIA requests

Schools have significant legal obligations for ensuring proper management and protection of student data and themselves (Colorado House Bill 14-1294)

Education Tech Companies receive a great deal of student data, but the majority say little or nothing about data breaches, data deletion, or the fate of student information in the event of a merger or bankruptcy

STUDENT DATA PRIVACY AND SECURITY CONTINUES TO BE HIGH RISK FOR SCHOOLS

“The status quo surrounding the protection of our student’s data is entirely unacceptable. It’s like the Wild Wild West – there are few regulations protecting student’s privacy and parental rights, and the ones that do exist were written in an age before smartphones and tablets. Our bipartisan bill is a much-needed first step in providing a framework that can address these concerns of parents and educators while at the same time allowing for the promise of education technology to transform our schools.”

- Congressman Jared Polis

CONGRESSMAN JARED POLIS ON PROTECTING STUDENT DATA

EDUCATIONS RESOURCES AND INSTRUCTIONEducational resources have tremendous benefits, but can create challenges if not implemented properly with Student Identity and Data management

Erosion of instructional time – over 2 months of a 9 month academic term is spent on accessing digital/online educational resources

Lack of student engagement – Students not able to participate due to technology issues such as forgotten passwords, knowing where to go, new students

Teacher productivity – Teachers spending valuable preparation and instructional time on extracting, updating, loading data such as rosters to get a view of where students are in their learning progression

Teacher choice – Often teachers are not enabled to use the best instructional resources for their students due to technology restrictions or vendor lock in

Costly - Significant time and cost to bring privacy enabled and secure applications into the classroom

Lack of processes and tools - No pathway or process to bring in applications rapidly while preserving compliance with school data use policies

I can’t believe we’re waiting for Jimmy again, I wish he

would remember his password.

With so many apps, I spend

hours collecting data for

understanding my students’

needs.

The 21st Century Classroom requires rapid adoptionof digital technologies

21ST CENTURY CLASSROOMNew student, Sally,

is browsing Facebook because her account’s are not created yet.

Mr. Smith! My password

doesn’t work!

Mr. Smith, I can’t find that web link...

Where am I suppose to go?

High risk of personal data

exposure!

A FEW RESOURCES FOR LEARNING MORE ABOUT STUDENT DATA PRIVACY

http://ptac.ed.gov/

http://www.cosn.org/focus-areas/leadership-vision/protecting-privacy

http://studentdataprinciples.org/

http://www.cde.state.co.us/dataprivacyandsecurity/hb14-1294dataprivacy

http://studentprivacypledge.org/

http://www.futureofprivacy.org/

Thank you