Student Privacy

  • Riley Says Get a Warrant — So Why Are Schools Skipping That Step?

    August 13, 2026

    • Data Protection

    • Fourth Amendment

    • Privacy Laws

    • Student Privacy

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Analysis

  • FTC Finalizes Settlement with Illuminate Education, Heeding EPIC’s Call to Strengthen Data Minimization Requirements

    June 9, 2026

    On Friday the FTC finalized a revised consent order with Illuminate Education that incorporates many of EPIC’s recommendations to strengthen the data minimization section of the order.

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Student Privacy

    • Updates

  • EPIC Urges FTC to Strengthen Data Minimization Requirements in Proposed Order with Illuminate Education

    January 6, 2026

    In comments, EPIC commended the FTC for taking action against harmful data security practices, recognizing specifically that misrepresentations of data security measures and false assurances that data breaches will be timely disclosed constitute unfair and deceptive acts. To make the proposed order meaningful and effective, EPIC encouraged the FTC to strengthen the data minimization provisions of the order.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Student Privacy

    • Updates

  • EPIC’s Insights from a Five-Year Retrospective on State Attorneys General Privacy Enforcement and Tools for the Work Ahead

    October 30, 2025

    • Age Assurance

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Children's Privacy

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Communications Privacy

    • Competition and Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Brokers

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Data Security

    • Health and Reproductive Privacy

    • Location Tracking

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • Robocalls

    • Student Privacy

    • U.S. Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Worker Privacy

    • Analysis

  • Virtru: University Data Protection & Compliance: What You Need to Know 

    September 23, 2025

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Protection

    • Student Privacy

    • News

  • PRESS RELEASE: Report: Privacy Harms from AI Necessitate Robust Risk Assessments

    June 25, 2025

    Today, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released Assessing the Assessments: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Algorithmic & Privacy Risk Assessments.

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Privacy Laws

    • Risk Assessments

    • Student Privacy

    • Surveillance Pricing

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Worker Privacy

    • Updates

  • Assessing the Assessments

    June 25, 2025

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Privacy Laws

    • Risk Assessments

    • Student Privacy

    • Surveillance Pricing

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Worker Privacy

    • Publications

  • EPIC Comments to Dutch DPA on Emotion Recognition Prohibition under EU AI Act

    December 17, 2024

    By notice published on October 31, 2024, the Netherlands’ Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (“AP”) sought input1 on its interpretation of the sixth prohibition of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (hereinafter the “AI Act”)2 which prohibits AI systems intended to identify or infer the emotions or intentions of natural persons (“emotion recognition systems”)3 in the areas of workplace or education institutions based on biometric data (“Prohibition F”).4

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Data Protection

    • International Privacy

    • Student Privacy

    • Worker Privacy

    • Comments

  • Tech Policy Press: Silly Protesters! Free Speech is for Tech Companies, Not Palestinian Human Rights Activists 

    May 22, 2024

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Student Privacy

    • News

  • Generating Harms

    May 14, 2024

    • Access to Information

    • AI in Law Enforcement

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Children's Privacy

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Communications Privacy

    • Competition and Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Brokers

    • Data Protection

    • Data Security

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Election Security

    • Government AI Use

    • Government Records & Privacy

    • Health and Reproductive Privacy

    • International Privacy

    • International Privacy Laws

    • Online Harassment

    • Privacy Laws

    • Proposed U.S. Legislation

    • Robocalls

    • Screening & Scoring

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Student Privacy

    • U.S. Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Web Scraping

    • Worker Privacy