In an article for Forbes, Peter Greene looks at how the proliferation of computer-based technology in schools has impacted student data privacy. “Schools are where one thorny modern issue — data privacy — meets our most vulnerable population — students,” Greene writes. Pointing to the 2019 State Student Privacy Report Card, which grades states across seven categories of protecting student data privacy, he writes, “The picture is not pretty; no state earned an A, and 28 states failed with either a D or an F.” Furthermore, 11 states were reported to have no student data privacy laws in existence.
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