Student & Child Privacy Center
Updates on emerging student privacy and cybersecurity issues and best practices.
With over 130 state student privacy laws being passed since 2014, new federal regulations on the horizon and school cyber attacks becoming unfortunately more frequent, the 51ÂÜÀò Student & Child Privacy Center is designed to bridge the resource gap by providing low-barrier insights to stakeholders, especially those who do not have access to costly legal expertise.
The Center:
- Distributes rapid-response stakeholder alerts when there are significant developments in the student and child privacy landscape
- Publishes short resources on student and child privacy issues for 51ÂÜÀò stakeholders
- Provides non-partisan legislative tracking and analysis related to student and child privacy issues for the 51ÂÜÀò Advocacy & Governance team
- Disseminates student privacy and cybersecurity insights through public speaking engagements and being a resource for the press
The Student & Child Privacy Center is fully funded in partnership with the . Previous project funders include the and .
Updates & Alerts
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August 03, 2023
FTC Decision in EdModo Case Won’t Impact District OperationsOver the course of the summer, our advocacy team had engaged with the FTC and USED to raise concerns with the FTC’s recent settlement with EdModo.
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July 05, 2023
51ÂÜÀò Releases Guide for School Leaders on Artificial Intelligence51ÂÜÀò partnered with four education organizations to develop a guide for school leaders on the basics of AI in education.
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May 25, 2023
A Wild 48 Hours for Federal Student PrivacyThis text is an excerpt from a longer blog post from the Student & Child Privacy Center and Public Interest Privacy Center.
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May 24, 2023
51ÂÜÀò Partners with CoSN on Annual State of EdTech Leadership SurveyEarlier this week CoSN released the 2023 State of EdTech Leadership report.
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May 24, 2023
USED Releases Resources for Artificial Intelligence (AI)USED’s Office of Educational Technology (OET) released a new report that summarizes the opportunities and risks for AI in teaching, learning, research, and assessment based on public input.
About the Student & Child Privacy Center
The Student & Child Privacy Center was formed out of the , an emerging nonprofit previously and led by Amelia Vance, a globally recognized student privacy expert who has been a leader in the student privacy space for over a decade.

Support for Education Leaders
Questions about student privacy? Looking for resources? Want to collaborate?
Send your questions to Noelle Ellerson Ng (nellerson@aasa.org) and Amelia Vance (avance@publicinterestprivacy.com).