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As part of Data Privacy Day, CSIAC is asking community members to participate in discussions on Data Privacy topics.

In this age of online learning, what can parents do to help manage the privacy of their kids? What privacy conversations should parents be having with their children?

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[nyanhtooaung]

Since 2018, the FBI has warned that pre-university students using education technologies face a number of cybersecurity and privacy threats. Concerns include the exposure of personally identifiable information, biometric data, academic information, geolocation, web browser history, IP addresses, and classroom activities, as well as the potential disclosure of students’ behavioral, disciplinary and medical information. https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/understanding-child-data-privacy-for-distance-learning/

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The FBI, CIS, and MS-ISAC have coauthored a joint Cybersecurity Advisory. They have been assecessing malicious actors that are targeting kindergarten through twelth grade educational instutions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been ransomware attacks, theft of data, and disruption of distance learning. In 2020, 58 percent of ransomware incidents involved K-12 schools, up from 28 percent in the previous year. These attacks are expected to continue through the 2020/21 school year.
Cyber Actors Target K-12 Learning Education to Cause Disruptions and Steal data

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