Education technology presents exciting new opportunities for students, teachers, and schools, but it also exposes young people to serious new risks. We must ensure that we both enable students to benefit from this technology and protect their privacy. That's why the ACLU of Massachusetts aims to carefully examine and advocate for effective policies, regulations, and laws governing youth privacy where technology meets student information.

• Read the report: Back to the Drawing Board: Student Privacy in Massachusetts K-12 Schools
• Access resources, including model policies
• Read media coverage
• Take action

Read the report

• Executive summary
• Back to the Drawing Board: Student Privacy in Massachusetts K-12 Schools
• Documents

Access resources

• Model policies for student internet and computer use and for mobile phones
• ACLU's model legislation for student data privacy
• School privacy guide for students
• School privacy guide for parents

Read media coverage

• Boston Herald: ACLU: Current policy lets schools spy on students
• Waltham News Tribune: Waltham schools release student privacy documents
• Christian Science Monitor: ACLU urges digital privacy safeguards for students
• WBUR: Report: Schools Fall Short In Handling Students’ Digital Data
• MassLive: ACLU flags 'invasive' monitoring software in West Springfield school-issued computers
• Milford Daily News: ACLU: Mass. students severely lack technology privacy
• Fox 25: ACLU finds "inadequate" policies regarding technology in Mass schools
• Kade Crockford, director of ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Program, in Boston Herald: On student privacy, Mass. flunks
• Boston.com: Walpole students petition against school surveillance cameras
• Politico: The big biz of spying on little kids

Take action

Follow the conversation on Twitter at #studentprivacymatters, #studentdata, #edtech and #eddata.