The Department of Education (DoE) has weighed in with an answer to the question of whether personal information (PI) collected in the $8 billion preK-to-12th-grade education software industry is “federally protected from being shared or sold by technology vendors,” The New York Times reports. The answer? “It depends.” New DoE guidance includes that “careful wording,” the report states, in detailing “requirements and recommended practices for school management of online education services that directly involve students or their parents.” Meanwhile, Forbes reports on The Student Privacy Zone Summit in Washington, DC, aimed at ensuring student information “is restricted to educational use only.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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