The Internet Association takes umbrage with proposed revisions to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) via the Student Privacy Protections Act, arguing that the requirements are “too broad,” The Hill reports. “As currently drafted, the data security and privacy provisions of the bill impose vague security requirements, including notice requirements triggered by a ‘breach of the security practices,’ which theoretically could include common employee errors such as failing to properly sign-in a visitor or failing to logout of a computer when going to get coffee for five minutes,” the organization said in a letter to the of the House Education and Workforce Committee.
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