myON Signs Student Privacy Pledge

MINNEAPOLIS - Jan. 15, 2015 - PRLog -- MINNEAPOLIS – January 15, 2015 –myON (http://www.myon.com/), a personalized digital literacy platform (http://thefutureinreading.myon.com/overview/complete-literacy-program), today announces their support of the Student Privacy Pledge, President Obama’s new privacy protections designed to safeguard student data.

President Obama recently unveiled the next steps in his comprehensive approach to enhancing consumers’ security, tackling identity theft, and improving privacy online and in the classroom, including the Student Digital Privacy Act, a new legislative proposal designed to provide teachers and parents the confidence they need to enhance teaching and learning with the best technology by ensuring that data collected in the educational context is used only for educational purposes.

In today’s increasingly interconnected world, American companies are also leaders in protecting privacy, taking unprecedented steps to invest in cybersecurity and provide customers with precise control over the privacy of their online content. Led by the Future of Privacy Forum and the Software & Information Industry Association, 75 companies, including myON, have committed to this cause by signing the Student Privacy Pledge to provide parents, teachers, and students with important protections against misuse of their data.  President Obama has challenged other companies to follow their lead and sign the pledge.

For more information on myON’s award-winning digital literacy platform, please visit them online at www.myON.com.

About myON

myON, a business unit of Capstone is a personalized digital literacy platform that creates collaborative learning opportunities. myON expands the classroom for teachers and students by providing unlimited access to the largest collection of more than 7,000 enhanced digital books with multimedia supports, real-time assessments and close reading tools. myON empowers students and teachers with real-time, actionable data—number and type of books opened and read, time spent reading, results of regular benchmark assessments, and more—based on embedded Lexile assessments that measure student reading growth. With myON, every student experiences the benefits of personalized literacy instruction.