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Senators Markey and Hatch Introduce Student Privacy Legislation
Today, Senators Edward Markey (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) introduced legislation to require privacy safeguards for education records and prohibit the use of student information for advertising purposes. The "Protecting Student Privacy Act of 2014" would give students the right to access and amend their records that are held by private companies. The bill also requires schools to minimize the amount of personally identifiable information transferred to private companies. The bill requires companies to destroy student information "when the information is no longer needed for the specified purpose." The bill incorporates many of the proposals EPIC set out in the Student Privacy Bill of Rights. Senator Markey announced plans to introduce student privacy legislation earlier this year at EPIC's public panel on student privacy. For more information, see EPIC: Student Privacy.
July 30, 2014| Share:
