Digital protection of students and employees
Educational institutions have a legal and ethical responsibility to protect sensitive student information. As a public institution, you often already have secure IT systems in place. But we see that particularly within the school system, sensitive data continues to land outside the secure systems – typically in email inboxes or in private folders. This is problematic – both in relation to complying with privacy regulations, but also if you simply want to be responsible with the personal data you have been entrusted with.
Here are your sensitive data
Having worked with a number of educational institutions, we know that the sensitive data you hold is typically:
- Names, dates of birth, addresses, ID numbers
- Grade papers, test scores etc.
- Attendance registration and disciplinary registration
- Medical history, diagnoses and treatment plans
- Special education information, including eligibility for special services
- Contact details of parents and guardians and info on parental authority
- Images of minors that reveal a student’s appearance, ethnicity, location, or activities
- All your information on the school’s employees
How do you ensure that the teachers and office staff keep track of all the sensitive data they come across? We see that many employees have challenges with data discipline. The mistakes that are made are typically that sensitive data are not organised so you actually dont know where it is, that you send and receive sensitive data unencrypted and that you do not delete sensitive data that is no longer relevant to you.
How we can help you
Our data discovery tool, DataMapper, uses artificial intelligence to find files, emails and images with sensitive content across your data systems. You will have the opportunity to finally clean up data containing sensitive information and comply with privacy regulations. Cleaning up will be more accurate and much faster than if you had to clean up manually.
Find sensitive data about current students
Find and delete information about old students
Adjust information about teacher
Keep a record of personal data as per GDPR Article 30.
Use case
A small school with a staff of 15 wanted to find the sensitive data they stored in order to comply with the GDPR. They knew they had to protect student data, but they didn’t know how much they actually had or where it was stored. For years, email (without encryption) had been used to collect sensitive information. The graduate school decided to get DataMapper and within minutes they got:
A list of all sensitive data
An overview of the data’s age, type and location
A quick way to delete sensitive data
An option to control access to the sensitive data
One dashboard to monitor all sensitive data
Results and savings for the school
10.230
Risk documents found in the school’s storage.
165
Hours of work saved per year for the school.
€4425
Cost savings per year with DataMapper.
DataMapper is part of PrivacyHub
We want GDPR compliance to be as easy as possible so you can focus on running your business. That's why we created PrivacyHub, to simplify 3 of your most important tasks.
- Tracking and monitoring sensitive data
- Responding to data access requests (DSARS)
- Sharing and requesting data safely by email
Get the whole platform now to become compliant from the moment you collect personal data to the time you delete it (or return it to its owner). Or, start with one solution to tackle your most pressing compliance task first and go from there.
Do you need a safe way to share and request personal data? ShareSimple can help.
