EdLaw
Student Privacy Pledge (retired)
A voluntary industry commitment created in 2014 by the Future of Privacy Forum and the Software and Information Industry Association: signatory companies made public, legally enforceable commitments ("a dozen privacy commitments regarding the collection, maintenance, use, and sharing of student personal information").
Retired: per FPF, "As of April 25, 2025, the Future of Privacy Forum has retired the Student Privacy Pledge previously hosted at studentprivacypledge.org" (fpf.org/student-privacy-pledge). FPF's stated rationale is that 40+ states have enacted student privacy laws that codify or exceed the Pledge's requirements. Former signatories remain bound by their commitments for data collected during their signatory period; FPF maintained the public signatory list until 2025-07-31.
Applicability to EdTech
Kept for the historical record: RFIs and older procurement checklists still reference the Pledge. The accurate answer is that the Pledge was retired in April 2025 and its substance now lives in state law (e.g. SOPIPA) and standard contract instruments (the NDPA).
Licence
The corpus quotes two sentences from the FPF retirement notice at fpf.org/student-privacy-pledge and reproduces nothing else; the Pledge text itself is not reproduced. The footer of that page (read 2026-10-01) carries the link "Creative Commons Attribution" to the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, which permits copying and redistribution "for any purpose, even commercially".
Conditions, and how this corpus meets them:
- Attribution: the quotations are attributed to the Future of Privacy Forum and link the page they come from; this section names and links the licence.
- Indicate changes: the quoted sentences are unchanged.
- No endorsement: the corpus does not suggest that FPF endorses it.
The footer link is the only statement of terms on the page, and it is the one relied on here.
Related
- SOPIPA — state law codifying the Pledge's core prohibitions
- SDPC NDPA — the contractual successor in practice