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American Privacy Rights Act Redline

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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Beyond Commercialization Concerns in Student Privacy

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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