Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has introduced his own version of a student privacy bill, adding to the collection of those already drafted, The Hill reports. Vitter’s Student Privacy Protection Act aims to give parents control over how their children’s data is released and used. “Parents are right to feel betrayed when schools collect and release information about their kids,” Vitter said in a statement. “This is real, sensitive information—and it doesn’t belong to some bureaucrat in Washington, DC.” Meanwhile, Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), wrote an op-ed for The Hill on why their school privacy bill is essential to children’s safety in the Digital Age.
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