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In: Data security breach affects private schools; are lazy government employees to blame?

Posted on May 23, 2021 by Dissent

The Hindu reports:

Private schools have complained of a data security breach by officials with the Department of Primary and Secondary Education, while student information was fed into the Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE+) database.

“Cluster Resource Persons (CRPs) are tasked with updating data from all the schools in their respective clusters. However, the CRPs have freely given out their user ID and login passwords to individual schools, and are asking them to upload data. This is a practice we have observed in several districts, including Bengaluru,” alleged D. Shashi Kumar, State general secretary, Associate Management of Primary and Secondary Schools in Karnataka.

As schools are accessing the UDISE+ data directly using the privilege of a CRP, they are allegedly able to access information from other schools in the same cluster, including lists of students, their results, contact numbers of parents, etc.

Read more on The Hindu.

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