State Student Privacy Laws and SOPIPA
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Because FERPA does not preempt state law, states add their own protections. California's SOPIPA was the first U.S. law to prohibit using student data for noneducational targeted advertising and became a template for other states' edtech laws.
Student privacy is also safeguarded at the state level through constitutional provisions and statutes. Nearly all states have at least one student-privacy law and a majority supplement FERPA. In response to concerns about student data used for targeted advertising, California enacted SOPIPA - the first law in the country to prohibit this practice for noneducational purposes - which became a template for other states' edtech privacy laws.
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