{"id":239,"date":"2014-08-14T19:46:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/announcements\/mark-maccarthy-testifies-before-congress-on-student-privacy\/"},"modified":"2014-08-14T19:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:46:54","slug":"mark-maccarthy-testifies-before-congress-on-student-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/2025-02-19_cct\/news-story\/mark-maccarthy-testifies-before-congress-on-student-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark MacCarthy testifies before Congress on Student Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2019\/09\/20140814_RB-Mark-MaCarthy-testifies_244x174.jpg\" style=\"width: 244px; height: 174px; float: right; margin: 2px;\" \/><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">CCT Adjunct Faculty member Mark MacCarthy is Vice President for Public Policy at the Software &amp; Information Industry Association, a DC-based trade association representing data and data analytics companies. &#x00a0;In that capacity, his recent work has focused&#x00a0;on how to assess and address growing problems of student privacy and data security. Recently he testified in front of a joint hearing of the House Committees on Education and Cybersecurity on student privacy. &#x00a0;Read his written testimony, &#x201c;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/HM\/HM08\/20140625\/102408\/HHRG-113-HM08-Wstate-MacCarthyM-20140625.pdf\" style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\" target=\"_blank\">How Data Mining Threatens Student Privacy<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">&#x201d;, and watch <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/hearing\/subcommittee-joint-hearing-how-data-mining-threatens-student-privacy\" style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\" target=\"_blank\">video from the hearing<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">. His article, entitled, &#x201c;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-r-i-e.net\/inhalt\/021\/IRIE-021-MacCarthy.pdf\" style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\" target=\"_blank\">Student Privacy: Harm and Context<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\">,&#x201d; appeared in the International Review of Information Ethics over the summer. This article combines two privacy approaches into an assessment framework that can be used to address student privacy issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/explore.georgetown.edu\/people\/maccartm\/?PageTemplateID=360\" style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\" target=\"_blank\">Mark MacCarthy<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.538em;\"> has been an adjunct faculty member of the CCT program for over a decade and teaches a variety of courses including the development of electronic media, global Internet freedom and a summer program in Geneva on trade and the global information economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2019\/09\/20140814_RB-Mark-MaCarthy-hearing_407x398.png\" style=\"width: 407px; height: 398px; float: left;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCT Adjunct Faculty member Mark MacCarthy is Vice President for Public Policy at the Software &amp; Information Industry Association, a DC-based trade association representing data and data analytics companies. &#x00a0;In that capacity, his recent work has focused&#x00a0;on how to assess and address growing problems of student privacy and data security. 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