An article about student data privacy in Education Week discusses Joel Reidenberg‘s research on student data privacy and the mounting demands faced by Ed-tech companies to protect students’ online information in the face of efforts by K-12 officials and vendors to devise new ways to harness data with the goal of improving learning.
But the specific issue that was raised by [Fordham University law professor Joel Reidenberg, a leading researcher on data-privacy issues] was that the pledge has some notes that say if you specifically have an agreement with a school district … You could say something in the pledge, or say something in your policy, but then have a contract that lets you do something different.
Read the entire Education Week article here.
