What is Privacy Shield?

Privacy Shield helps districts securely share data by masking sensitive information based on rules.

Privacy Shield helps districts securely share data by masking sensitive information based on rules.

You can use Privacy Shield to protect sensitive information shared between your district and Vendor application. Privacy Shield helps ensure that sensitive data, such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), is masked or excluded during data syncing. 

To use Privacy Shield, mark the attributes you want to protect as sensitive. These attributes will either be masked or excluded from data sharing, depending on your and vendor's settings. For more details, see how sensitive data is shared. If sensitive data needs to be masked, it will be replaced with a placeholder value before being shared with the vendor. For more details, see how sensitive data is masked. 

To apply Privacy Shield settings, enable it in the data-sharing request configuration. Once the vendor approves it, import data from your data source/SIS to apply masking. As a result, only your district will see the original data, while Vendors see only masked information. Learn more about how to use Privacy Shield.

Why use Privacy Shield

Protect sensitive data

Privacy Shield helps districts protect sensitive student and staff data. It allows you to mask PII data, ensuring that only authorized district staff (District Admins) can view the full data while others see only masked one.

Security and privacy compliance

Privacy Shield helps districts meet privacy regulations by dynamically adjusting data visibility based on user permissions. This makes it easier to comply with privacy standards.

Customize data access

Using Privacy Shield, districts can define specific rules for different data types. It allows you to control who can access certain PII information.