Congress Proposes Bipartisan Student Privacy Bill
The House Education and Workforce Committee has proposed a discussion draft amending the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal student privacy law. The draft recommends ways to strengthen the law, including: (1) protecting student data maintained by private companies; (2) shorter wait times for students to access their records; (3) permitting students to opt out of disclosing their data for certain research studies; (4) mandatory data security for schools; (5) written agreements detailing obligations of third parties receiving student data; (6) enhanced enforcement mechanisms; and (7) narrowing exceptions under which schools may disclose student data without consent.
April 23, 2015| Share:
