Large companies have agreed to protect student personal data
Google and Khan Academy have joined the Student Data Privacy Act (SDPA) agreement between the giants of the information and educational market, which provides for the protection of students' personal data from online distribution. In addition to them, the signature of the agreement yesterday put more than 15 companies. About 75 different organizations did this last week, including such giants as Microsoft and Apple.
The companies that have signed the agreement will have to follow a number of principles for using these students. The signatories promise not to sell the collected data and not to use them in targeted advertising. In addition, access of parents of students and pupils to their data will be facilitated and streamlined, and the process of collecting such data should be made more transparent.
The initiative of the Student Data Privacy Act was proposed about a week ago by President Barack Obama as part of his speech to Congress. The main idea of the speech - the lives of Americans are very dependent on the digital world and such problems as hacker attacks (Obama mentioned the famous incident with Sony Pictures) can lead to serious consequences. The President insisted that the list of participants of the Student Data Privacy Act be open, then the parents of young people will be able to know who signed the agreement and who does not.
About a week ago, Google refused to sign for SDPA: in an interview with Business Insider, officials from the search giant explained this by saying that the protection of users' personal data is “top priority” for the company. What has changed since that time, and why Google suddenly decided to change its point of view is unknown.
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The companies that have signed the agreement will have to follow a number of principles for using these students. The signatories promise not to sell the collected data and not to use them in targeted advertising. In addition, access of parents of students and pupils to their data will be facilitated and streamlined, and the process of collecting such data should be made more transparent.
The initiative of the Student Data Privacy Act was proposed about a week ago by President Barack Obama as part of his speech to Congress. The main idea of the speech - the lives of Americans are very dependent on the digital world and such problems as hacker attacks (Obama mentioned the famous incident with Sony Pictures) can lead to serious consequences. The President insisted that the list of participants of the Student Data Privacy Act be open, then the parents of young people will be able to know who signed the agreement and who does not.
About a week ago, Google refused to sign for SDPA: in an interview with Business Insider, officials from the search giant explained this by saying that the protection of users' personal data is “top priority” for the company. What has changed since that time, and why Google suddenly decided to change its point of view is unknown.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/375723/
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