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As of 2003, 99% of K-12 schools in the United States use the Internet. With the increased use of databases and other technologies to manage data in K-12 institutions, an inherent threat to the privacy and confidentiality of that information has also increased. Over the last decade, with the increased use of these technologies, there has also been an increase in the number of privacy-related violations that have occurred, both in industry and in the K-12 environment. There are a plethora of security technologies that can be used to improve privacy; however, organizations such as K-12 schools often cannot afford to hire IT staff versed in the state of the art. Furthermore, technology alone will not address security and privacy problems; policy is an essential ingredient for any organization. This study is a gap analysis investigating privacy practices of public educators in the Midwestern portion of the United States. The significance of the work is that we cannot improve the practices unless we understand deficiencies in current privacy practices and perceptions.
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Dark, M., McPherson, C. (2007). Privacy and the Public Educator. In: Smith, M.J., Salvendy, G. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting in Information Environments. Human Interface 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73354-6_32
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