Brief on Student Data Privacy and Equity Released

This week, 24 organizations spanning the fields of education, healthcare, disability rights, civil liberties, and data protection released a brief detailing ten principles for student data privacy and equity.

"Education During a Pandemic: Principles for Student Data Privacy and Equity" explains that the rise in technology-driven efforts to educate students and to combat the spread of COVID-19 necessitate a set of guiding principles for schools to follow in order to instill trust in students and families that schools will address privacy and equity concerns.

The principles are:

• Support inclusion and nondiscrimination
• Address trauma
• Ensure technology and data use is evidence-based
• Only collect necessary health data
• Contextualize health symptoms
• Create data governance policies
• Limit sharing personal information
• Be transparent
• Allow humans to make final decisions
• Empower students and families

Access the brief