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New COPPA Update: A Setback for Schools and Student Privacy?

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New COPPA Update A Setback for Schools and Student Privacy? January 17, 2025 Morgan Sexton and Amelia Vance       CC BY-NC 4.0 Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a much-anticipated update to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule)–and it is not what the education community was hoping for. As you may recall, the FTC released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to update the COPPA Rule in December 2023, which included rules clarifying when schools can consent to technology use instead of parents and imposing strong contractual requirements on edtech vendors. However, the final rule […]

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A Kids Online Safety Bill in Time for the Holidays? It’s Possible.

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A Kids Online Safety Bill in Time for the Holidays? It’s Possible. December 9, 2024 Jessica Arciniega, Katherine Kalpos, Morgan Sexton, and Amelia Vance       CC BY-NC 4.0 Hello all, As you may recall–the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSPA) in July, incorporating two major student and child privacy bills–the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0). The House Energy & Commerce Committee passed different versions of KOSA and COPPA 2.0 in September, leaving questions about how these bills would proceed. This weekend, Senator Blackburn released a new version

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Comparing KOSA AINS with KOSPA

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Comparing the House’s KOSA with Senate’s KOSPA On 7/30/24, the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSPA), which incorporates two major student and child privacy bills–the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0)–into the Eliminate Useless Reports Act of 2024. On 9/17/24, the House posted an amendment in the nature of a substitute from Representative Bilirakis to their previously introduced version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Below is our redline comparing KOSPA as it passed the Senate to the House version of KOSA (as updated in the

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Comparing COPPA 2.0 AINS with KOSPA

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Comparing the House’s COPPA 2.0 AINS with the Senate’s KOSPA The Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) and the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) will be included in a Wednesday (9/18) markup by the full House Commerce Committee. An amendment in the nature of a substitute (AINS) were shared publicly this morning (9/17) for both bills. Below is our redline comparing the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSPA) as it passed the Senate to the House version of COPPA 2.0 (as updated in the AINS on 9/17). A similar redline for KOSA is forthcoming. Children and

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Comparing Senate KOSPA with House KOSA/COPPA 2.0

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Comparing Senate KOSPA with House KOSA/COPPA 2.0 On 7/30/24, the Senate passed the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSPA), which incorporates two major student and child privacy bills–the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0)–into the Eliminate Useless Reports Act of 2024. Below is our redline comparing KOSPA as it passed the Senate to the House versions of KOSA (as updated in the Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute for KOSA on 6/27) and COPPA 2.0 (as introduced in the House). Table of Contents Add a header to begin generating

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Comparing Senate Versions of KOSA/COPPA 2.0 vs KOSPA

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Comparing Senate Versions of KOSA/COPPA 2.0 vs KOSPA On Tuesday (7/23/24) Senate Majority Leader Schumer introduced an amendment to add two major student and child privacy bills–the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0)–to the Eliminate Useless Reports Act of 2024. This created a new bill–the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act–which passed a cloture vote today (7/25/24). The Senate is expected to vote on the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act next week. Below is our redline tracking substantive changes to KOSA and COPPA 2.0 in the Kids Online Safety

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American Privacy Rights Act Redline

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American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) Redline Official version posted to Congress.gov on 6/25/2024. Changes from this draft are in purple (note different color codes in the COPPA 2.0 section). Small changes that do not have an impact (likely or substantive) on the bill may not be included as purple below, but we erred on the side of caution and colored most changes. Blue text is from amendments and cuts to the version circulated June 22, 2024 linked here. Black text below struck through is from cuts to the version circulated May 22, 2024 linked here from the version circulated on

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Tis the Season for Rulemaking: FTC Announces New COPPA NPRM

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Tis the Season for Rulemaking: FTC Announces New COPPA NPRM December 20, 2023 Katherine Kalpos, Morgan Sexton, and Amelia Vance       CC BY-NC 4.0 Hello all, While we might have thought child and student privacy work for the year was winding down, the FTC had other ideas. Today the FTC released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) that would mean big changes for companies and schools, codifying some of the changes stakeholders have been advocating for. We’ll be going through the NPRM in detail over the next few days.

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What New Amendment to the Kids Online Safety Act May Mean for Integrated Data Systems

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What New Amendment to the Kids Online Safety Act May Mean for Integrated Data Systems September 2023 Katherine Kalpos, Morgan Sexton, and Amelia Vance       CC BY-NC 4.0 A new amendment to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) isn’t just about kids.  On July 27th, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation passed KOSA as amended out of committee. While KOSA is designed to protect kids online, one of its new amendments – the Filter Bubble Transparency Act (aka Thune 2), hereafter referred to as “the amendment” – regulates platforms providing content to users of all ages. And notably for governmental integrated data system

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Beyond Commercialization Concerns in Student Privacy

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This week’s newsletter focuses on a new report from Human Rights Watch. I decided to write it because this report joins many others from student privacy advocates that focus nearly exclusively on commercialization risks.

When student privacy reports focus again and again on advertising technology as the major threat to student privacy, stakeholders overlook other insidious privacy harms. The likely result of the report will be a series of articles about how student privacy is in crisis and there are not enough laws and companies are bad. That may draw attention to this issue, but it also means that other really important student privacy issues could fall by the wayside.

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