SIIA Says Holes in CCPA Sequel Show Need for National Law
California’s proposed privacy sequel is bad for education technology, Software & Information Industry Association President Jeff Joseph said Monday. Californians will vote in November on the California Privacy Rights Act (see 2006250052). CPRA “clarifies and improves some aspects of the…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), most notably by alleviating the CCPA’s First Amendment infirmities with respect to publicly available information,” said Joseph. But he said the proposal “can be interpreted to present educational technology companies with an impossible choice: comply with the CPRA, and remove data from school records on student request and breach their contract with the school, thereby jeopardizing the school’s federal funding, or refuse and face liability for breaching the CPRA.” Congress should pass a national privacy law, he said. SIIA earlier raised constitutional concerns with CCPA, to be enforced starting Wednesday.