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The Student Privacy Bill Of Rights

By Bradley S. Shear
May 02, 2014

On March 6, 2014, Khaliah Barnes, the Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's (EPIC) Student Privacy Project authored an extremely important article that was featured in the Washington Post titled, “Why a Student Privacy Bill of Rights is Desperately Needed.” The piece details the digital privacy challenges students encounter and why they need to have stronger legal rights to better protect their personal privacy and safety. I wholeheartedly agree with Ms. Barnes and believe our students need more robust digital privacy protections.

The main federal laws designed to protect student privacy, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)'and the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PRPA)'have not been updated to keep pace with the Digital Age. The lack of legal protections for our students' personal information that is stored in the cloud has made Ms. Barnes' Student Privacy Bill of Rights a necessity. It enumerates six basic rights for students and I believe that in the age of Big Data, students have “certain unalienable Rights” (to quote the Declaration of Independence) regarding their personal privacy. See, “Big Data Enters the Classroom,” WSJ.com (subscription required).

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