Local K-12 school technology directors and cybersecurity staff gathered in Neosho for a student data privacy training session ...

Concerns have been raised about the use of the data of more than 350,000 children after post-primary schools provided ...

In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, it’s really that simple of a priority–and that complicated. Despite the passage ...

A new report from CoSN examines gaps and opportunities in student data privacy at schools and districts across the country. The 2025 National Student Data Privacy ...

Protecting student data is critical for school district IT leaders, but many cite leadership and training gaps, along with time and manpower, as obstacles in that ...

Many school district technology leaders are struggling to establish fundamental student data privacy practices, partly due to a lack of support from the rest of the district, concludes a new report ...

Illuminated has agreed to pay Connecticut $150,000, New York $1.7 million and California $3.25 million. In addition, Illuminate has agreed to implement practices to comply with student data privacy ...

While artificial intelligence has long supported higher education research initiatives, it’s now expanding into areas that touch student data. Examples include face recognition in surveillance cameras ...

From President Donald Trump’s plans to shutter the U.S. Department of Education to threats of federal funding cuts for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, people who work in K-12 education ...

SEATTLE — In a recent survey of K-12 ed-tech leaders, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) found that most are extremely or very concerned about student data privacy but lack the expertise and ...

On March 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against the education technology (EdTech) company Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, a popular learning management system. The complaint ...

Nearly three quarters of ed-tech leaders in the U.S. who oversee student data privacy for their district don't have that task in their job description, and 17 percent of them have no training in the ...