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Linnette Attai

@playwell-llc.bsky.social
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Data privacy consultant, CPO, DPO, TEDx speaker. Focus on education and youth data privacy. In my spare time I write books for school districts on protecting student data privacy.

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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
FTC referral to Justice Dept over alleged #COPPA violations and more…such as writing messages users thought were coming from their contacts (179 messages sent 259 million times - allegedly, of course), and other oddities. Complaint against the company and CEO as an individual.
ftc.gov
FTC Investigation Leads to Lawsuit Alleging Sendit App and its CEO Unlawfully Collected Personal Data from Children, Deceived Users About Messages, Subscription Memberships
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against the operator of the Sendit anonymous messaging app for unlawfully collecting personal data from children, misleading users by sending messages
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
No child’s play here. Disney agrees to $10MM COPPA settlement over mislabeled YouTube video, with a 10 year consent decree to go with it.
ftc.gov
Disney to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Allegations the Company Enabled the Unlawful Collection of Children’s Personal Data
Disney will pay $10 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company allowed personal data to be collected from children who viewed kid-directed videos on YouTube without not
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Examining how districts are managing student data #privacy & challenges faced by district edtech leaders has been a bit of a passion project for me. H/T to Aaron Hoffman at Useful Research for the data analysis & to the dedicated EdTech leaders who took time to participate and share their insights.
cosn.org
Student Data Privacy Guidelines & Tools | CoSN Privacy Resources
Protect student data privacy in K-12 education. Access compliance frameworks, tools, and best practices for secure data management.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
What happens to student #privacy if ED is dismantled or disempowered? The 135+ state student data privacy laws don’t come close to covering the terrain addressed by FERPA and PPRA. @edweek.bsky.social @ariannaprothero.bsky.social @laurainegl.bsky.social www.edweek.org/technology/i...
edweek.org
Is DOGE Putting Student and Educator Data at Risk?
How Trump's efforts to slash the federal government could affect teachers’ and students’ data.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sharing before it disappears. Worth a read.
ed.gov
Federal Role in Education
This page discusses the role of the U.S. Department, providing a brief history of the Department as well as a descrption of the Department's mission and staffing.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Irony.
thehill.com
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Most states also have laws specific to student data #privacy, some w/breach requirements. Mandatory reporting to regulators in NY & CT. Potential jail time in LA. Penalties up to & including debarment from doing biz in the state in IL. @govpritzker.illinois.gov www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
usatoday.com
Students sue Education Department, allege DOGE is accessing private data
College students in California sued the federal Education Department Friday, alleging Elon Musk's DOGE team viewed their private data.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” - Winston Churchill Looking forward to the end of the beginning.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The scope and repercussions from the recent PowerSchool data breach are likely to be unfolding for awhile. In the meantime, you know the drill. Shore up your fundamentals: complex, unique passwords, MFA, data access limitations, network segmentation, training, etc. www.govtech.com/education/k-...
govtech.com
How Districts Can Face Fallout from PowerSchool SIS Breach
School districts across the nation are reacting to word from K-12 software giant PowerSchool that its student information system has been compromised, exposing data from teachers and students.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Students arrested and an employee fired over password sharing and misuse. It should never have come to this. Document policies and procedures. Require unique passwords and MFA. Train better (and don’t only train on phishing). Then train again. #privacy
localsyr.com
Liverpool High School staff member loses job for sharing password that allowed students to hack into school records
LIVERPOOL, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A staff member of Liverpool High School has lost her job for sharing a password with a student whose classmates then used the login credentials to tamper with elec…
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Very happy to see Rebecca Torchia at EdTech Magazine covering this important program that gives state education agencies insights into district student #privacy practices and the resources to help districts improve and so glad to be a part of it! #privacy #edtech @cosnweb.bsky.social
edtechmagazine.com
Partnership Aims to Increase Data Privacy in Illinois School Districts
CoSN is working with the Illinois Learning Technology Center to bring its Trusted Learning Environment Seal to more schools across the state.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So much wrong here, including, “…this was not an old device, it was fairly recent, expensive, and still being sold.” Seems to be just predatory at that point.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Enjoyed chatting with Kirsten Adair with Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations about this impactful student data #privacy program.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
CA Confidentiality of Medical Info and CA Customer Records Act have entered the student #privacy chat. One to watch, esp for those working w/ district SEL programs, IEPs, etc. And remember: notification 5 months after a breach (w/out good reason) is a VERY expensive, self-inflicted wound. #edtech
dailybruin.com
Illuminate Education faces lawsuit alleging failure to keep user data in the dark - Daily Bruin
The California Supreme Court will soon decide the scope of two education data privacy laws. An appellate court ruled in July that the case J.M. v.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A very, very cautionary tale, and good reminder for districts: your DPA with your ed tech provider is not the same as due diligence - trust but verify, and investor excitement does not mean it’s a good product. It means someone *thinks* they can make money. #privacy #edtech @the74.bsky.social
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This lawsuit seems messy. Plaintiffs seem to ignore #FERPA & cite basic analytics and adaptive learning as some of the nefarious doings with data. Defendant's tilting at #COPPA is...unique. TBD if it prevails on wiretapping or other, but one to watch. #privacy #edtech @annamerod.bsky.social
k12dive.com
IXL class-action suit advances amid student data harvesting claims
A group of parents alleges the ed tech provider collected and monetized data from millions of school-age children without parental consent.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Thank you @wearelakotatech.bsky.social for sharing!
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This bill never should have dropped without a massive rewrite to avoid some of the issues (overly broad scope, unintended consequences, etc) that were ultimately leveraged for delays and collapse. Would have passed a long time ago. H/T James Bruni. @georgiawells.bsky.social @wsj.com
wsj.com
Inside Big Tech’s Bid to Sink the Online Kid Safety Bill
Tech giants and their allies are leaning on culture-war issues to splinter bipartisan support for the bill.
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Linnette Attai @playwell-llc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
What are you doing to take control of your data privacy, and how are you communicating that to the companies you share your information with?
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Taking Control of Your Data Privacy | Linnette Attai | TEDxCUNY
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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