“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” – […]
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 […]
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 […]
In one way I am glad that interoperability and privacy is once again becoming a “hot button” topic for conversation in the wild world of education. While the two terms might make may in schools roll their eyes, throw up their hands, or turn a blind eye, they are becoming […]
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 […]
It’s time to hit the road to start the 2019 education conference season – a season that never seems to end! This year we start out with the UK’s BETT and the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) from January 27-30 in sunny Orlando, Florida. Looking at the sessions and […]
I have been ask a lot lately about the work of the Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community in the development of technical blueprints for interoperability that allows data to flow seamless between applications and the growing work of the Special Interest Group the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) working to […]
WHEN: April 3-5, 2019 from 3pm (US Pacific) WHERE: Hilton Portland Downtown, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204 Come join your peers at the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) Meeting! The SDPC event starts with a ‘SDPC Social’ on Wednesday, April 3 (straight after the CoSN meetings), followed by updates on the […]
Join the Future of Privacy Forum and the Student Data Privacy Consortium as they provide a free “Student Privacy Boot Camp” for districts. January 28, 2019 @ FETC – Orlando, FL: REGISTER NOW! April 4, 2019 @ CoSN – Portland, OR: REGISTER NOW! June TBD, 2019 @ ISTE – Philadelphia, PA (registration […]
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The SDPC model Data Privacy Agreements (DPAs) have had a huge impact on the K12 EdTech ecosystem by establishing common expectations and streamlining the DPA execution process for both districts and providers.
Since 2016, over 222,000 standard DPAs have been executed and subscribed to.
By applying an average legal fee of $250 per hour, and minimal negotiation time of 1hr for each district and vendor per DPA, these standard DPAs have saved participating districts and vendors over $111 million.
