When it comes to protecting the privacy of student data, US Federal and state laws require stringent due diligence from both technology vendors and schools. In many states, educators can neither use nor form valid contracts with vendors whose products are not compliant with legal privacy requirements.
Vendors need access to privacy and security professionals to maintain a competitive edge in edtech, but legal fees are often too high for emerging companies, and consequences for noncompliance are exorbitant. Educators need ways of easily knowing that the tools they are bringing into school are safe and legal. It is for these reasons that going beyond the privacy policy and getting data privacy certification for education technology products is so important.
Here are just a few of the benefits to data privacy certification:
Data privacy certification protects a school’s technology product investment with assurances that can only come from a trusted…
