Why is California Not Protecting Student Privacy?

California was the first US state to pass a comprehensive privacy law, the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act/California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA). However, California exempted student data from one of the key privacy rights—the right to be forgotten.

The right to be forgotten gives people the right to have any data collected on that person deleted. California CCPA 1798.105 says: A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.

The result, students who wanted to exercise their CCPA/CRPA right to have their person data erased instead found that they had no right and that their data had been leaked when the University of California was hit with a massive data breach last month.

ZenPrivata believes that every human being has an inalienable right to privacy, and that includes students too. This is why we created our privacy platform and were named a top privacy startup to watch in 2021. The current regime is not protecting our personal information well enough.

Learn more today and join the fight to protect everyone’s personal information.