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[…] Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy to inform the Special Rapporteur’s upcoming report on the privacy rights of children.  The Special Rapporteur’s report, expected in March 2021, will focus on how privacy affects the evolving capacity of the child and the growth of autonomy, and what factors enhance or constrain this development. FPF’s […]

Protections for student data privacy took an important step forward this summer when the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) released the first model National Data Privacy Agreement (NDPA) for school districts to use with their technology service providers. Ever since education technology (edtech) emerged as a key tool in classrooms, both schools and edtech companies […]

[…] 130 state laws that have passed since the Pledge was created. We are excited to apply this knowledge to the Student Privacy Pledge with Student Privacy Pledge 2020, being released this fall. * The Student Privacy Pledge’s commitments are echoed in the most commonly passed student privacy law aimed at edtech service providers, California’s […]

National Student Clearinghouse’s StudentTracker for High Schools Earns iKeepSafe FERPA Badge July 22, 2015 – iKeepSafe.org, a leading digital safety and privacy nonprofit, announced today that it has awarded its first privacy protection badge to StudentTrackerSM for High Schools from the National Student Clearinghouse, the largest provider of electronic student record exchanges in the U.S. […]

COVID-19 continues to disrupt education…And virtual learning poses unique student privacy challenges, particularly for students with disabilities

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) today released a new resource designed to help educators navigate the unique student privacy challenges raised by COVID-19 and the shift to virtual learning, particularly for students with disabilities. Student Privacy and Special Education: An Educator’s Guide During and After COVID-19 […]

The European Commission published a Communication on its mandated two-year evaluation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on June 24, 2020 in which it discusses as a future policy development “the possible harmonisation of the age of children consent in relation to information society services.” Notably, harmonizing the age of consent for children […]

[…] teacher for three years during which she taught for both Chicago Public Schools and Saint Louis Public Schools through the Teach for America program. Juliana is a 2020 graduate from Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College where she earned her Master of Science in Public Policy & Management. Juliana also holds a Master’s degree in […]

In a recent article published by the Associated Press in The Washington Post and The New York Times, the Future of Privacy Forum warns of the privacy risks of sharing information about positive COVID-19 tests among students, particularly student athletes who have already returned to campus to prepare for the upcoming sports season. Read an excerpt […]

Op-ed by Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky published in The74. As CEO of a global data protection nonprofit, I spend my workdays focused on helping policymakers and companies navigate new technologies and digital security concerns that have emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, my children have adopted many of these […]