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Committee backs data-privacy bill giving parents and students a limited "right to be forgotten" in state education datasets
Summary
Senate Bill 118 would create a statutory right for parents and eligible students to remove certain personally identifying information from state-level education databases (the so-called “right to be forgotten”) and require the K‑12 data task force and OPI to adopt data security and retention policies. The committee amended the bill to shift some
Senate Bill 118, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Zolnikov, would establish a statutory process allowing parents and eligible students to request removal of certain personally identifying information from state‑level education datasets (a “right to be forgotten”) while preserving records that state or federal law requires to be retained. The bill also directs the K‑12 data task force and the education and workforce data governing board to adopt detailed data‑security, retention, breach notification and privacy policies for state education data.
Zolnikov said the measure is designed to increase public trust in state data collection by giving families a…
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