An education technology startup called inBloom that collected and stored student data shut down in 2014 due to privacy concerns from parents in New York. In 2015, there was a large amount of legislation proposed or passed related to student data privacy across 46 states, including California's Student Online Personal Information Protection Act. There is ongoing debate around expanding the use of education technology tools in schools while addressing privacy fears over how student data is collected, used, secured, and accessed.

1. Student Privacy
What Teachers
& Administrators
Need to Know
Alan Simpson
iKeepSafe.org

2. InformationWeek
Hope Battles Fear Over Student Data Integration
March 26, 2013
A nonprofit startup called inBloom was
one of the stars of the SXSWEdu event
earlier this month in Austin, Texas. Funded
by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
the Carnegie Corporation of New York....

3. Mind/Shift
What Will Happen to ‘Big Data’ in Education?
April 3, 2014
Yesterday, a $100 million startup lost its last
customer… the state of New York, inBloom’s
last remaining client, will delete all student
data on the repository due to privacy
concerns.

4. Don’t get inBloomed
Not here to instill fear
If you don’t communicate, parent
concerns can become fears
Privacy can be a weapon

5. WeLiveSecurity.com – January 7, 2016
Five of the Most Devastating Data Breaches of 2015
Office of Personnel Management – 21.5 million US
government employees
Anthem (US health insurer) – 80 million customers
AshleyMadison.com – possibly 37 million users
Hacking Team – 400GB of data – even hackers get
hacked
VTech – toys and tech for kids – 6.4 million kids and
4.9 million parent accounts

6. 182
2015 State Legislative Activity
bills related to
student data
privacy in
46
states

7. Student Online Personal Information
Protection Act (SOPIPA) – California
• Passed in 2014 – Effective: January 1, 2016
• Regulates activities of vendors and service
providers, rather than schools and districts
• 20+ states have introduced or passed legislation
modeled after SOPIPA

8. T|H|E
JOURNAL – January 12, 2016
•What's Hot, What's Not in 2016?
•Panel of four agreed unanimously on just two
things that are hot:
Blended learning
Student data privacy concerns

9. Addressing privacy fears,
expanding access to edtech
•Training - professional development,
including K12 curriculum.
•Tools - help schools evaluate and
improve policies and practices.
•Tech assessments - independent review
by privacy experts.

10. How to know:
Type of data collected, how it is used, who
has access to it and how secure is it

11. iKeepSafe.org/privacy
iKeepSafe.org/roadmap
iKeepSafe.org/privacy-k-12-curriculum-matrix
alan@iKeepSafe.org