"The head of Code.org is taking an unusual step – by deleting student emails. Hadi Partovi, founder of the education nonprofit, told EdScoop in an email that he was prompted by near-daily news reports about cyberattacks to stop storing student emails in Code.org's servers. "The easiest way to protect sensitive data from hacking is to not have it stored in the first place," he wrote in the email. "In today's world, the more data you store, the more risk you bear."... "We did this because the privacy and safety of student data is more important to us than the ability to contact our users," he wrote in the post."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Code.org deletes student emails; EdScoop, 7/25/16
Corinne Lestch, EdScoop; Code.org deletes student emails:
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