KU takes privacy seriously. KU is committed to protecting the privacy of the information maintained by the institution and is working to enhance the protection of identifiable information in the lives of the KU community.
There may be nine million reasons to encrypt—the
FTC estimates that is how many Americans have their identities stolen each year. The KU Privacy Office recommends the use of encryption for the transmission and/or storage of Confidential or Sensitive Information.
This ambitious plan will develop and carry out a series of steps that will improve our handling and securing of private information, our management of university records, and the preservation of KU’s institutional memory for today’s decision-makers and tomorrow’s scholars.
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