Nearly three quarters of ed-tech leaders in the U.S. who oversee student data privacy for their district don't have that task in their job description, and 17 percent of them have no training in the ...

In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, it’s really that simple of a priority–and that complicated. Despite the passage ...

The NDPA v2 represents the byproduct of hundreds of hours of thoughtful input from the SDPC Vendor and Alliance community.” — Jim Siegl, Senior Technologist ...

While artificial intelligence has long supported higher education research initiatives, it’s now expanding into areas that touch student data. Examples include face recognition in surveillance cameras ...

On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint ...

Illuminated has agreed to pay Connecticut $150,000, New York $1.7 million and California $3.25 million. In addition, Illuminate has agreed to implement practices to comply with student data privacy ...

Many school district technology leaders are struggling to establish fundamental student data privacy practices, partly due to a lack of support from the rest of the district, concludes a new report ...

As cyber attacks on schools become more frequent and severe, new research shows that districts still lack the most basic protections for safeguarding student information. To address those gaps, the ...

A new report from CoSN examines gaps and opportunities in student data privacy at schools and districts across the country. The 2025 National Student Data Privacy ...

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Concerns have been raised about the use of the data of more than 350,000 children after post-primary schools provided ...

Denver Public Schools is blocking student access to ChatGPT, citing concerns about safety, data and new features coming to ...