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Bentley College/Watchfire Survey of Online Privacy Practices in Higher Education Reveals Risk Management Issues for U.S. Colleges and Universities.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, April, 2006
Byline: Bentley College
WALTHAM, Mass., April 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- A first-of-its-kind national survey of online privacy practices in higher education, conducted by Bentley College and Watchfire, reveals that while most schools engage in e-commerce, only 65 of 236 schools surveyed have privacy notices linked from their home page while nearly all schools surveyed engage in practices that potentially pose a privacy risk. The 236 institutions surveyed were top-ranked doctoral universities and national liberal arts colleges from the 2004 U.S. News and World Report list of America's Best Colleges.
The benchmark study comes at a time when most schools are using the Internet to process electronic applications and other types of e-commerce transactions,...
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