The SDPC Management Board is proud to release for Community comment and review, the draft of the National Research Data Privacy Agreement (NRDPA). The draft leverages the format of the successful National Data Privacy Agreement (NDPA) to streamline research privacy agreements by standardizing a tool that could work across […]
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Washington, DC, 29 July, 2020 —The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a special interest group of the non-profit Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is proud to announce the release of the first National Data Privacy Agreement (NDPA) to streamline application contracting and set common expectations between schools/districts and marketplace providers. […]
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Making sure it is not ‘too good to be true…’ The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way that we educate kids by shifting their majority ‘brick and mortar’ setting to an online delivery model. This shift has put huge new demands on school personnel, parents, technology providers and the […]
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Welcome to 2020! We hope you enjoy this first Update of the year and get you thinking about some possible “what’s next” for the Community… oh, and happy Data Privacy Day! View as PDF Setting Student Privacy Common Expectations Between End Users and Marketplace Providers Periodically we […]
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“Setting common expectations between end users and marketplace providers” was one of the original goals for the Student Data Privacy Consortium. We can say that we are moving the needle on that goal but now we can collectively add to that “moving the marketplace toward greater student data privacy” – […]
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Steve Smith, co-Founder of the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) and member of the SDPC Governance Group, was invited to participate in the FTC “Future of COPPA Workshop” held in Washington DC, on October 7, 2019. Steve participated on the panel entitled “Definitions, Exceptions and Misconceptions”. In addition to highlighting the […]
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The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is proud to announce the release of its API to enable the use of the public information available from the SDPC Resource Registry to further student data privacy awareness in the educational […]
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You may have seen the recent release of the State Student Privacy Report Card which analyzes the thoroughness and quality of student-data privacy laws passed in the U.S. in the past five years. If you have not seen it, the grades are not good. On the one hand it shows that there […]
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