A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data – including some Social Security Numbers and medical info ...

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The students say the university has allowed the companies to deploy “surreptitious online tracking tools” on its student portal to gather the information, in violation of federal privacy laws.

In the digital age, nearly all college activities take place online — from interacting with student services to managing financial aid and participating in classroom engagement. As a result, ...

WASHINGTON – College students in California sued the U.S. Department of Education Friday, alleging Elon Musk’s government efficiency team illegally accessed the agency’s confidential student data. The ...

Doing homework and messaging classmates should not mean sharing data with third parties, including advertisers and law enforcement agencies. But in almost every school classroom today, safety and ...

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Monday denied a request from college students to prevent Elon Musk’s government efficiency team from accessing U.S. Department of Education databases, a move they said ...

Hackers gained access to an online coding repository belonging to the University of Sydney and stole files with personal ...

In the science of data mining, analysts search databases of computerized records to find patterns and clusters of information that might not be apparent at first glance. The process -- used in ...

A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away from the ...

Nicholas Tampio does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The graduate students in Carrie Klein's higher education administration courses are well aware that the colleges and universities where they work collect and use data about their undergraduates. But ...