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While students are about to embark on their holiday break, there is no such luck for educational technology (“EdTech”) providers. Privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence compliance obligations have proliferated over the past year, with no signs of slowing down. While it is hard to keep track of the numerous regulations and proposals on the state and federal level, below, I have highlighted a few issues for EdTech providers to monitor in the coming year.Continue Reading No Holiday Break for EdTech Compliance

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 shuttered daycare centers, shifted schools to virtual settings, and fueled the rapid growth of children’s applications and educational technology (“ed-tech”) to facilitate the shelter-in-place childcare and remote learning paradigms. The federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), as well as numerous state laws protect children’s and students’ privacy when using these platforms. In 2021, increased scrutiny of the data collection practices of these platforms has followed their rapid deployment, as new variants led to renewed restrictions on in-person education and childcare. That scrutiny is likely to continue in the new year, as the use of such platforms persists, even as the pandemic subsides. In this post, we survey the developments during 2021 and assess the future of child and student privacy in 2022.
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