Assembly Bill A7243

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Enacts the "K12 student privacy and cloud computing act"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A7243 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5355
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §755, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A2628, S3119
2017-2018: A2883

2013-A7243 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "K12 student privacy and cloud computing act" to prohibit service providers who offer cloud computing services to primary and secondary educational services from processing student data for commercial purposes.

2013-A7243 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7243

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 8, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  enacting  the  "K12
  student privacy and cloud computing act" to prohibit service providers
  who  offer  cloud  computing  services to primary and secondary educa-
  tional  institutions  from  processing  student  data  for  commercial
  purposes

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
the "K12 student privacy and cloud computing act".
  S 2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares:
  1.  Cloud  computing  services  enable  convenient,  on-demand network
access to a shared pool of configurable computing  resources  (including
networks,  servers,  storage,  applications,  and  services) that can be
rapidly provisioned and  released  with  minimal  management  effort  or
service provider interaction;
  2.  Cloud computing services offer tremendous potential to educational
institutions in terms of helping consolidate  technical  infrastructure,
reducing  energy  and  capital  costs,  increasing collaboration through
"anytime-anywhere" access to applications and information, and realizing
efficiencies, network resilience, and flexible deployment; and
  3. Cloud computing service providers hold the potential to invade  the
privacy  of students by tracking students' online activities for commer-
cial purposes, such as delivering behaviorally targeted  advertising  or
otherwise  improving  advertising services that the service provider may
offer in connection with or separate from the services it offers to  the
educational institution.
  In  light  of  the  foregoing,  the  legislature deems it necessary to
ensure that when an educational institution engages  a  cloud  computing
service provider to process student data, that the service provider uses
student  data  only  for  the benefit of the educational institution and
does not use  such  data  for  the  service  provider's  own  commercial
purposes.

              

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