Student Data Privacy

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-08-14 — FCC To Review E-Rate Program To Ensure Congress’s Vision: cross-connection with fcc-e-rate-cipa-review: E-Rate/CIPA rules govern filtering and monitoring on school and library networks, directly intersecting with student data privacy expectations when subsidized networks impose child-protection technologies. (novelty: 3)
2026-07-29 — A bill to promote the use of accessible, seamless, intrastate data available through robust, secure, and tailored statewide longitudinal data systems, and for other purposes.: S5157 was introduced to promote expanded use of statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDS) for intrastate data sharing, raising adjacent questions about how linked student records are secured and governed at the state level. (novelty: 2)
2026-03-16 — Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act: 2026-03-16 — Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (S836, held at the desk) would extend federal online privacy protections to teens, adjacent to but distinct from school-context student data privacy rules. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
2025-12-11 — Sammy’s Law: Sammy’s Law was introduced, proposing that large social media platforms be required to open data-access APIs to FTC-registered safety software providers for monitoring minors’ accounts — a child-safety framework adjacent to, but distinct from, school-context student data privacy rules. (novelty: 3)