The U.S. Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center is hoping to guide educational technology vendors through state and federal laws as they use student data, the Future of Privacy Forum reports. One key finding from the center revealed that without appropriate transparency, consent and privacy safeguards, optional surveys given to students as part of the SAT and ACT exams can violate several federal laws. Meanwhile, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, reintroduced an update to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 called the Do Not Track Kids Act. The bill would work to add stronger protections for children online and would extent COPPA protection to include children 15 and under.
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