Berkman Initiative Explores Privacy Issues as Educational Institutions Move to the Cloud

“In April 2013, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society in collaboration with Microsoft convened an exploratory workshop on “Student Privacy in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem,” which marked the launch of a broader research initiative on this topic. The Berkman student privacy project seeks to surface, identify, and evaluate central privacy issues and opportunities that may emerge when educational institutions consider moving to “the cloud” (To learn more about this initiative, please visit the Student Privacy Initiative page.). “The cloud” refers to computer-related services and software provided over the Internet and other networks…”

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