How does Bookshare preserve a student’s confidentiality?
Bookshare maintains the confidentiality of student data by limiting access to the information to the educational agency serving the students and by having contracts with each agency Bookshare serves. View Bookshare’s privacy policy. By making agreements with each state, local education agency, district and school Bookshare serves and by its strict privacy policy requiring protection of student data, Bookshare believes that it qualifies under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). As an agency under contract with educational agencies, Bookshare has the same obligation to protect student personal data as the education agency. For educational agencies that still prefer to keep student names private, Bookshare allows student numbers or pseudonyms in place of student names if the educational agency submits a Confidentiality Rider form. The use of pseudonyms, while on one level protecting students’ privacy also adds complications to the students’ ability to obtain book in acc
