Laws aimed at protecting students must strike a “balance between safety and growth—between isolation and discovery,” NetChoice Senior Policy Counsel Carl Szabo, CIPP/US, writes for The Hill. However, he suggests, “the Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act (SDPPRA) of 2015 misses this balance.” SDPPRA’s “overly proscriptive language” results in “shackling educational innovation.” With the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act undergoing an update and the recent overhaul of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Szabo questions, “With all these laws already on the books to protect student information, what’s the value of the SDPPRA?” His answer? “Very little.”
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