Work Smarter Not Harder: How New York Leveraged Existing Education Services Infrastructure to Comply with New Privacy Laws

What Can States Learn From New York’s Approach to Student Privacy?

New Future of Privacy Forum analysis highlights the benefits of New York’s regional, shared-services approach to implementing its student privacy policies.

Work Smarter Not Harder provides an overview of New York’s current education privacy laws and infrastructure, which is centered on regional shared service organizations. When New York’s primary student privacy law, Education Law 2-D, was enacted in 2014, those regional organizations became helpful tools for implementing the law and subsequent regulations.