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AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles v.2: version 2

Strategies for Applying the Content Storage Principle

Reviewing the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy (and other relevant documents) of the ePortfolio site and seeking counsel, e.g. at your institution, if you are not clear whether the site is safe or appropriate to use.
Identifying how the provider will collect and use your personal data, whether you can opt out of data collection, and how you can remove your data before creating an account on the ePortfolio-making platform and adding content.
Recognizing that deleting your account does not mean your user data will be removed from data repositories unless the end user license agreement says this.
Considering how complex, time consuming, or costly the portfolio transfer process is, if there is one.
Informing students on how the institution, vendors, and/or website hosting system may preserve or share their ePortfolio information with other parties, systems, or entities.
Sharing guidelines on data ownership, storage, and sharing in clear and accessible end user license agreements.
Keeping data with integrity and confidentiality by conforming to relevant data security standards as set out by your institution.
Being accountable for data collection by designing data protocols for collection, maintenance, storage, and use of data.
Ensuring that data collection methods meet global legal and ethical standards, such as the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act, General Data Protection Regulations, among others.

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Contents of this path:
2. Content Storage, Scenario 1 You are an undergraduate senior. You are required to develop a ePortfolio of your experiences and reflections over the duration of your final capstone course. As part of the assessment task, you are able to use the web portfolio platform of your choice. Your institution provides you with a list of possible options and outlines the benefits of using each one. However, you are concerned about how each platform may use your information once it is uploaded because recently you have seen advertisements pop up on your phone based on your previous web searches.
3. Content Storage, Scenario 2
4. Content Storage, Scenario 3 You are the ePortfolio Program Director and decided on the purchase of a particular ePortfolio platform that is the primary platform for your institution. You receive an email from your ePortfolio provider stating that the end user licensing agreement (EULA) will change in three months, the negotiated notice period for your institution. In preparing your response, you want to consider any changes to student data collection and storage. When you negotiated the contract with this provider, you were clear about your institution’s policies regarding student data collection and storage and required that the provider notify you via email of any changes and give you the right to terminate the contract if changes violated the institutional policy.
5. Content Storage, Scenario 4