State Student Privacy Laws and SOPIPA
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.
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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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