Following President Barack Obama’s comments last week urging companies to sign the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Student Privacy Pledge, 15 more companies have signed on, including Google and the popular YouTube-based Khan Academy, The Washington Post reports. The latest wave of companies joins the 75 that signed on last week, the report states, noting the pledge includes a “promise not to sell student information or to use behaviorally targeted advertising on education products. It also promises to make it easy for parents to see their students' data and to be transparent about how those data are collected and used.” The FPF’s Jules Polonetsky, CIPP/US, noted, “There’s been an explosion of technology in schools, and with that has come a privacy backlash.”
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