Privacy Briefing Recap with steps NYC parents can take to exercise their opt out rights

Nov. 11, 2028

Last night we hosted a special briefing on what privacy rights NYC parents have under state and federal law, what questions you should be asking your principals about your child’s use of AI and ed tech, and what strategies you can use to opt your kids out of these products. A special thanks to everyone who attended.

For those who couldn’t attend, or who wanted to go over the information we provided again, the PowerPoint is here and below; and here are some links to some of the resources that we shared:

• Your privacy rights as a parent, according to NY Ed Law §2-d

• Instructions and links for NYC parents on how to opt out of Directory Information disclosures  Please do this as soon as possible if you want to opt out of these disclosures.

• Questions to ask your schools about privacy, AI, ed tech use and screentime

• If you ask the question for names of the vendors with access to your child’s information, but do not get a substantive response within a few weeks, follow up with us at info@studentprivacymatters.org so we can help you file a complaint.

• If you do get a response, you can request to see a copy of the data, by contacting DOE at studentprivacy@schools.nyc.gov;  make sure you include the date you asked your principal for the names of these vendors, as the entire process is legally supposed to take no more than 45 days.

• If your child is under 13,  we can also help you opt out of one or more of these products by contacting the vendor and accessing your COPPA rights; sample letter here.

• We will also help parents of students of any age  check if any of the products used by your child are violating the law by employing data trackers, cookies, etc. that may be sharing their personal data with social media companies and other third parties who then use it for commercial purposes.  Contact us if you’re interested.

• If you’d like to take any of these steps, need help, or simply have other questions, fill our our brief survey here.

But please check out the Power Point here and below that provides more information about all these issues.