It’s an embarrassing revelation for a college to make: We’ve exposed students’ personal information not because we were hacked, but because we misplaced a laptop. Fortunately, only a handful of institutions have had to make such an announcement. Laptops, after all, aren’t all that easy to lose.
PDA’s, on the other hand, can disappear pretty quickly, so the thought of employees walking around with sensitive student information on their BlackBerrys can’t be a pleasant one for campus administrators. Just this week, officials at Miami University of Ohio’s Middletown campus disclosed that a PDA lost by an employee contains private data on about 850 students. (Associated Press)
Do college officials regularly carry sensitive information on their PDA’s? If so, what can administrators do to try to keep that data from leaking?
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