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Committee adopts amendment and advances student data-privacy bill with 'right to be forgotten'
Summary
Senate Bill 118, which creates a 'right to be forgotten' for student records in state-level education/workforce datasets and requires OPI reporting and safeguards, passed the committee as amended; witnesses stressed data-security layers and that PII is used only for record linking then de-identified for analysis.
Senator Daniel Zolnikov presented Senate Bill 118 as a measure to protect students' privacy in statewide education and workforce datasets by establishing a right for parents and students to remove state-held educational records from the central data system and by directing the K–12 data task force to adopt privacy, retention and security standards. "Student data is not just data. It's students," Zolnikov said, summarizing the bill's…
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