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President Trump Orders Closure of the Department of Education: What Schools and EdTech Companies Need to Know About FERPA

On March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14242 directing the Secretary of Education “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, [to] take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

EdTech and Privacy of Student Information: A Case Study

On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint alleges that Instructure...more

Franczek P.C.

COPPA, COVID, and EdTech: Essentials for Schools and Vendors

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Education has moved online, and students as young as pre-kindergarten are engaging in hours of remote learning via educational technology each school day. This has led all of us to think about the myriad of state and federal...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

EFF Report Finds That Student Data is Not Adequately Protected By Ed Tech Companies

On April 13, 2017, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) published Spying on Students, a report detailing its investigation into school-issued devices and student privacy. EFF found that parents were overwhelmingly not...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Don't Be Tardy. Get Schooled on North Carolina's New Education Technology Law Now!

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New NC Law Enhances Student Privacy Rights and Restricts Providers of Online Educational Resources Education technology (or "EdTech"), organizations will want to pay close attention to a new North Carolina statute that...more

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