Education Week – Benjamin Herold
“Long-awaited bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday would significantly reshape the country’s most prominent student-data-privacy law, but stop short of the radical makeover that lawmakers had proposed earlier this spring. The “Student Privacy Protection Act” aims to expand the scope of student information that is protected by law, place new obligations on both educational institutions and third parties who handle that information, and ban the use of such information for direct advertising to students. It would also allow for fines of up to $1.5 million on educational institutions that violate the law.”(more)