March 5, 2025

Today, the Data Privacy Working Group met for the first time, appointed by Chancellor Ramos to strengthen the weaknesses in proposed revisions to Chancellors Regulations A 820, and the DOE’s overall privacy policies and practices.

This meeting was very important, considering how over many years, DOE has long treated student privacy and their personal data in an overly lax fashion, leading to numerous breaches and the sale and commercialization of student data – contrary to the state student privacy law, Ed Law 2D, passed in 2014.

Below is a presentation that we gave, following those from Dennis Doyle, DOE’s chief privacy officer, Louise DeCandia, NYSED Chief Privacy Officer, and Naveed Hassan, a parent member of the PEP who is a tech expert.

Below ours is also the same presentation in Spanish.  Much thanks to Maggie Sanchez,  Co-founder of Protect NYC Special Education for the translation!

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