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Your Privacy Audit Checklist: Ten Questions Every Team Should Ask

Ten questions to help any team audit its privacy practices and keep its privacy policy accurate, current, and true to what customers, families, and partners were promised.

The Health Data Playbook: 5 Rules for Healthtech Companies

The FTC says Flo, GoodRx, BetterHelp, and Premom promised privacy, then shared health data with ad platforms. Five healthtech lessons on closing the gap between your policy and your practice.

How Organization-Wide Privacy Programs Help Manage Third-Party EdTech Vendor Risk

Student data risk doesn't stop at the product. It runs through cloud hosts, analytics tools, and AI models. Here's how organization-wide privacy practices help EdTech companies manage vendor risk, and

The Operational Case for Continuous Privacy Monitoring

Privacy and AI laws are converging fast. See why continuous monitoring beats annual reviews for staying current.

Meta's $17.1 Billion Settlement Is a Privacy Story: What EdTech Should Take From It.

A $17.1B Meta settlement holds real lessons for EdTech: how design choices, data collection, and privacy intersect for products built for kids.

Why Privacy Class Actions Are Rising in Healthtech - and What's Driving Them

Healthtech privacy class actions are surging as marketing pixels and vendor tools inadvertently share patient data. Prevent litigation with continuous site monitoring.

Your AI Agents Just Rewrote Your Privacy Policy — And You Didn’t Approve the Edit

AI agents quietly redraw your privacy perimeter. From EchoLeak to the Salesloft Drift breach, see the real incidents — and five steps toward agent-ready governance.

Rhode Island, Indiana, and Kentucky Join the Growing List of Comprehensive State Privacy Laws

January demonstrates that regulators continue to focus on privacy in 2026. In January alone, Rhode Island, Indiana, and Kentucky have each enacted comprehensive consumer privacy laws.

Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) Takes Effect: What Businesses Need to Know

The Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) went into effect on October 1, 2025 becoming the eighth state this year to adopt a comprehensive privacy law.

What You Need to Know About the January 2025 COPPA Amendments

A before and after look at the changes made with the latest January 2025 COPPA amendments, and how they may require updates to your company's privacy policy.

7 Ways You Can Avoid a Privacy Policy Disaster

Privacy policy compliance is an ongoing effort. In this post we break down best practices to ensure your policy is compliant despite emerging changes in laws and regulations

5 New Laws You Need to Tackle Now to Safeguard Your Business

Privacy regulations are evolving faster than ever. Just in January 2025 alone, five new privacy laws were enacted, adding to the maze of legislation already in effect from 2024.

Top 5 Things EdTech & KidTech Companies Need to Know About COPPA

The 5 most important issues EdTech & child-focused companies need to address about COPPA

Announcements

Common Sense Privacy Launches AI Privacy Assessment to Help Edtech Companies Earn Trust in AI

New assessment gives families, schools, and companies a clear way to see how AI products protect privacy, with kids at the center.

Introducing the Common Sense Privacy Seal: A New Standard in Digital Privacy Protection

Announcing our Common Sense Privacy Seal, a simple way to verify that a company upholds the highest privacy best practices. Read more about our first cohort of recipients.

Lightspeed Systems Earns the Common Sense Privacy Seal With Radical Transparency for Schools

Lightspeed Systems' Common Sense Privacy Seal reflects a privacy program built specifically for K-12 student data, backed by a public Trust Center that lets districts verify those practices themselves

Pixton Earns the Common Sense Privacy Seal, Proving Every Student's Story Can Be Told Without Exposing Their Data

A multimodal writing platform used across the curriculum shows that helping students find their voice and protecting their data can be the same design decision.

Human Restoration Project Earns the Common Sense Privacy Seal for Polaris, Built to Let Student Voices Be Heard and Kept Private

A nonprofit built on empathy interviews shows that AI-powered listening and rigorous privacy protection can be the same product.

ANTON Earns the Common Sense Privacy Seal, Proving Free Doesn't Have to Mean a Trade-Off on Privacy

A Berlin-based learning platform used in over 60,000 schools worldwide shows that equity and privacy can be built into the same product.

Happy Numbers Earns Trust — and the Common Sense Privacy Seal — with Safety Innovations Focused on Students

Happy Numbers’ Common Sense Privacy Seal was earned through a comprehensive, proactive approach to protecting student data.

Setting the Standard for District Trust: Panorama Education Awarded the Common Sense Privacy Seal

Panorama’s platform was built with a foundation of privacy and security, which was key to earning the Common Sense Privacy Seal.

Google’s Gemini for Education earns the Common Sense Privacy Seal

Google’s Gemini for Education earned the Common Sense Privacy Seal, highlighting its strong commitment to student data protection, compliance, and building trust with educators and families.

Protecting What Matters: How Kahoot! Champions Industry-Wide Privacy Efforts

Learn how Kahoot! partnered with Common Sense Privacy to build on its long-standing commitment to trust, safety, and transparency

Wayground Sets the Standard: Trust, Privacy, and the Common Sense Privacy Seal

Wayground protects 50M+ users’ data with strict privacy controls, earning the Common Sense Privacy Seal as a trusted, transparent EdTech leader.

Common Sense Privacy Seal Sees Rapid Adoption

The Privacy Seal is seeing rapid adoption from EdTech Industry leaders and innovative newcomers alike. Acceleration in AI for EdTech is causing parents and schools to look for third party validation.

How Prodigy Education Is Building Trust in Game-Based Learning

Prodigy earned the Common Sense Privacy Seal by meeting high standards for transparency and data protection—showing how EdTech can build trust with schools, parents, and students.

How MagicSchool is Using Privacy to Build Trust in AI-Powered Education

Learn about MagicSchool's long history of investing in privacy and how they worked with Common Sense Privacy to further strengthen their privacy policies and then earned the Common Sense Privacy Seal.

Success Stories

Why Denver Public Schools Restricted ChatGPT and Scaled Up MagicSchool

When Denver Public Schools restricted ChatGPT, they didn't abandon artificial intelligence. Instead, they went all-in on a purpose-built alternative that proves classroom safety and educator trust matter more than general-purpose hype.

Prodigy Leading the Way for Data Privacy Practices & Transparency

Understanding the challenge of EdTech Privacy Compliance

Privacy Resources

5 Privacy Gaps That Stall K-12 EdTech Deals

District privacy reviews are happening earlier and going deeper, especially for AI-enabled tools. With major districts pausing or re-evaluating student-facing AI and state regulations expanding beyond FERPA and COPPA, a program that worked last year might already be out of date.

Download the checklist to self-audit your data practices and keep your sales cycle moving.

103 privacy laws. No single standard. One map.

Every state writes its own privacy rules, 14 of them copied Virginia's template, then changed the fine print. This map lays out all 101 laws across 36 jurisdictions, organized by what they govern: consumer data, kids and teens, health, biometrics, AI, and more.

See where the penalties have already landed, which laws are still being fought in court, and where enforcement is heading next.

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