{"id":184,"date":"2015-05-28T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/05\/28\/student-data-protection-no-fear-congress-is-here-to-save-the-day-education-vendors-beware\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:44:00","slug":"student-data-protection-no-fear-congress-is-here-to-save-the-day-education-vendors-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/student-data-protection-no-fear-congress-is-here-to-save-the-day-education-vendors-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Data Protection: No Fear; Congress is Here to Save the Day. Education Vendors Beware."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senators Hatch &amp; Markey this month filed a measure to protect student data. Following suit is\u00a0Senator Vitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hatch &amp; Markey focus on amending FERPA. Yes, that FERPA at issue in the UT System\/Wallace Hall debacle. The Senators&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2015-05-13-Markey-StudentPrivacyBill.pdf\">Protecting Student Privacy Act <\/a>seeks\u00a0to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Require that \u201cdata security safeguards be put in place to protect sensitive student data that is held by private companies,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Prohibit \u201cthe use of students\u2019 personally identifiable information to advertise or market a product or service,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Provide \u201cparents with the right to access the personal information about their children\u2014and amend that information if it is incorrect\u2014that is held by private companies,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Make \u201ctransparent the names of all outside parties that have access to student information,\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sens-markey-and-hatch-reintroduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-protect-student-privacy\">Hatch-Markey Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vitter&#8217;s covertly named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kslaw.com\/library\/newsletters\/dataprivacysecurity\/2015\/0518\/dps051815_SPPAct.pdf\">Student Privacy Protection Act <\/a>will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8221; Reinstate protections originally outlined under [FERPA] by clarifying who can access student data and what information is accessible,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Require educational agencies to gain prior consent from students or parents and implement measures to ensure records remain private,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hold liable through monetary fines \u201c[a]ny educational agency, school, or third party that fails to get consent.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Extend &#8220;FERPA\u2019s protections to ensure records of homeschooled students are treated equally\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Prohibit &#8220;educational agencies, schools, and the Secretary of Education from including personally identifiable information obtained from federal or state agencies through data matches in student data.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitter.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press\/vitter-introduces-student-privacy-protection-act\">Vitter Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senators Hatch &amp; Markey this month filed a measure to protect student data. Following suit is\u00a0Senator Vitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hatch &amp; Markey focus on amending FERPA. Yes, that FERPA at issue in the UT System\/Wallace Hall debacle. The Senators&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/2015-05-13-Markey-StudentPrivacyBill.pdf\">Protecting Student Privacy Act <\/a>seeks\u00a0to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Require that \u201cdata security safeguards be put in place to protect sensitive student data tha&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-legislation","category-student-data-privacy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}