Schools are faced with an inherent responsibility to protect the private data of their students and staff. As the use of edtech proliferates throughout schools, it becomes more and more difficult for districts to control how school PII is managed by edtech vendors. School districts face enormous challenges:
- Lack of control over how school PII is managed by vendors
- Keeping school data safe and private
- Stopping the spread of school PII to an ever-growing list of vendors
- Liability and cost of stolen PII
- Concern with the reputational damage from a data privacy breach
- Providing adequate compliance with data privacy laws
So how do they address this growing risk without removing the very edtech solutions that are advancing their ability to provide an enriched education to their students? The short answer? Stop using traditional rostering services.
What Are the Privacy Risks of Using Traditional Rostering Services?
Traditional rostering services often offer privacy policies loaded with promise that have no security behind them to ensure the safety of your PII. In fact, the way traditional rostering services work increases a school’s risk dramatically, because each time the school selects a new edtech vendor with which to work, the traditional rostering service simply copies all of the PII over to the vendor. Do that an average of 1,403 times per school district, and the personal information of your students is suddenly at an exponential risk.
School Passport Is Revolutionizing Data Exchange
Unlike traditional rostering services or privacy policies loaded with promises, School Passport empowers edtech apps without the need to share student data, empowering you with actionable tools to eliminate PII risks. Unlike manually vetting apps for privacy compliance, School Passport empowers edtech apps without sharing student data. We don’t employ simple PII filters. Instead, we handle complex use
cases.
How School Passport Works
School Passport anonymizes PII to eliminate the need to spread PII to every vendor. School Passport is not only equipped with monitoring dashboards to identify PII risks, but it also has actionable tools to eliminate the risks. Our platform eliminates the need to share school PII data, which minimizes manual vetting processes, and our robust API framework facilitates complex use cases, without the need to share PII like emails or phone numbers, which makes it easy for vendors to implement.
Zero-Trust Data Exchange
Our zero-trust architecture utilizes a student data vault to anonymize PII data, managing data privacy in the most secure possible manner. School Passport’s industry-leading tokenization technology reaches beyond simple filtering to enable extensive app performance without sharing private data.
School Passport stops the spread of school PII at the source, reducing the need to vet applications manually for data privacy.
School Passport is a data exchange platform that exchanges any data with any edtech application, is easy to implement for schools and vendors, and eliminates the need to share school PII. To learn more, visit https://gg4l.com/learnmore
