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The Wrightstown School District must enact a cyber safety policy to protect our children. While related, some people confuse cyber safety with cyber security. A strong cyber safety policy will focus on protecting our children when they are online protecting their physiological and emotional well-being. 

The Internet offers a wealth of resources and material for education; however, it does contain risks to people who use the internet. By not having a strong cyber safety policy in place our children could be exposed to cyberbullying and cyber predators  as they use the internet for educational purposes. 

The District employs a wide range of online applications to augment learning. While these applications comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), many of them share the information collected by our students with third party companies. See for yourself by viewing our library software privacy policy. 

Personal Data vs. Profile Data

As an internet marketing professional my team uses a variety of resources to target affinity categories of people. By combining a plethora of information about a person’s online history we have been able to find very specific categories of people and feed them articles, social posts, and advertisements to take action, not purchase items. While Google’s terms of use indicate they do not advertise and share “personal data” with others they most certainly collect browser activity across platforms to feed search results to your child. Ask yourself, what type of search results is Google interested in providing to your sons and daughters?