Protecting Students Digital Privacy Act of 2016

Sponsor(s): Councilmember Grosso

Status: Referred to Committee on Education

Date Introduced: 1/19/16

Hearing Date: 3/21/16

Description:

Requires a student information system provider to establish, implement, and maintain appropriate security measures to protect student data and personally identifiable student information.
Establishes procedures with regard to accessing, analyzing, storing, or sharing that information
Limits an educational institution or a vendor that provides a technological device to a student from accessing or tracking the device, and analyzing, selling, or sharing the activity or data, except in limited circumstances.
Prohibits a school from requiring or coercing a student to disclose the user name or password to a personal social media account, add school-based personnel to their list of contacts, or to change the settings that affect a third party’s ability to view the account.
Prohibits school employees from accessing or compelling a student to produce, display, share or provide access to, any data or other content stored upon, or accessible from a student’s personal technological device, even when the device is being carried or used in violation of a school’s policy, except for in limited circumstances.