Back to school, into a new era of children's privacy
A new wave of children's privacy rules is reshaping what schools and ed-tech companies can collect, store, and do with student data as the academic year begins. The back-to-school season now arrives alongside a more regulated landscape for how minors' information is handled.
Why this matters: Kids do not consent to much of what schools hand over to software vendors. Parents rarely see the full list of tools their child's district uses, let alone what data those tools keep. New rules can change that, but only if they have teeth and someone actually checks. The real test is not what the law says. It is whether companies delete data they promised to delete and whether schools know what they signed up for when they bought the software.
Who should care: General readers · Privacy officers · Policy
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