Welcome to the Future!
In the political hot spot that is Denton County, Congressman Burgess noted the importance of bringing all stakeholders together on data security legislation by saying,
“I wanted to take an opportunity to hear from people who are working in the research area and the private sector and pull everyone together in a room for the morning and hear what the state of the industry is, and where they thought we might do things to improve it,” said Burgess, R-Lewisville.
Only a few States prohibit kids’ personal information from being shared by schools with third party vendors, like marketers.
States working to protect student data through legislation or regulation:
CBS This Morning: How Safe is Your Kid’s Digital Data at School?
Pearson’s SEC Form 20-F report warns investors about:
“The Consortium for School Networking, will work toward establishing a nationwide set of standards around student privacy. The end result will be known as the Trusted Learning Environment Seal that public schools can adopt to assure the community that their student’s data is protected.”
A bipartisan duo of Congressmen and women (Congresspersons?) has a new student data security bill.
Reps. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) and Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) rolled out the Student Privacy Protection Act this week. It will:
Learning Curve conducted a poll about technology in education, and student data is in its scope:
NAPA has new data breach compliance and certification. Data breaches are big business, people.
Data breaches and protecting against data breaches generate:
Data breaches impact:
Will Congress pass a national data security bill after the massive federal employee data breach. Odds are not high. There is a higher liklihood that next week there will be a new food trailer opening in Austin.
What does this mean? States will pass stronger data security bills from everything from retailers to public education contractors to health care data.
SOPIPA and Student Privacy Pledge are all the talk among Edtech companies gathered in NYC.
California’s SOPIPA passed in 2014 has influenced other state legislation. Student data protection isn’t just for state legislatures. Its also federal- Hello, FERPA.
And, state boards of education have used rule making to address data prote…
U.S. Senators Hatch & Markey this month filed a measure to protect student data. Following suit is Senator Vitter.
Hatch & Markey focus on amending FERPA. Yes, that FERPA at issue in the UT System/Wallace Hall debacle. The Senators’ Protecting Student Privacy Act seeks to: