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Children should not have to sacrifice their privacy for education

Laws offer students very little protection against the wiles of the technology industry

Data protection Bill: Adjudicating officer to decide compensation amount
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Dipayan Ghosh and Jim Steyer | NYT
This year, the media has exposed — and the government, including through guidance issued by the F.B.I. has begun to address — a string of harms to individual privacy by the technology sector’s leading firms. But policymakers must intervene specifically to protect the most precious and vulnerable people in our society: children. Their behavioral data is continuously suctioned up by technology firms through tablets, smartphones and computers and is at risk of being misused.

For many American children, going to school means handing over personal data. The Summit “personalized learning” educational tool — a platform for online lessons and assessments that

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