Updated FTC guidelines on student data sharing are...
Updated FTC guidelines on student data sharing are “helpful” but don’t eliminate the need for “an enforceable framework to protect students,” Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Student Privacy Project Director Khaliah Barnes told us. On Monday, the FTC released a…
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revised FAQ on compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (http://1.usa.gov/1nm8eQj). The altered and added language was meant to more explicitly address consent and notice guidelines for the sharing of student data. The new FAQs, while clearer about parents’ rights to access data collected about their children, “do not create an enforceable private right of action for students and parents,” Barnes said. “Nevertheless, schools that disclose student information to companies using the data for commercial purposes contravene the FAQs,” as do those companies, Barnes said. “The FTC should use its enforcement powers against companies for their unfair and deceptive commercial practices affecting students.”