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Week 03 · What Never to Paste

Thursday

Track day: your never-paste list
// Personal data, children's data and student records
⏱ about 15 min

Thursday: Your Never-Paste List

Maya, Ben and Rosa each make a first draft of a never-paste list.

Maya starts with her children. Ben starts with his class. Rosa starts with her customers and her two staff members.

Each list is different. But all three begin with the same question: what would cause harm if it got out?

Read your own track first. Each one turns this week's facts into a short list you can keep beside your screen.

Not legal advice
This lesson names COPPA and FERPA as a guide, not as a full account of either rule.
This is a plain summary, not legal advice. For your own case, check with your school, district or a lawyer.

For parents

Start from the COPPA list of a child's personal information. It includes full name, address, phone number and online contact details.

It also includes a photo, video or audio file with the child's image or voice, street-level location and biometric identifiers.

Add details the COPPA list does not name but you still want private, such as your child's school or health.

NIST names health information among the data at risk of leaking.

For teachers

Start from the FERPA list: student and family names, addresses, student numbers and indirect identifiers such as a date of birth.

Add education records: records directly related to a student and kept by the school or someone acting for it.

The Department of Education warns that general AI models are not usually built with student privacy in mind.

So using them may not fit your school's work to follow FERPA. Use only tools your school or district has approved.

For small-business owners

The SBA advises trying not to feed sensitive data or proprietary information into AI tools.

Start with customer lists, staff records, passwords and account numbers.

Add trade secrets and anything a contract says you must keep private.

Rosa can still get help with birthday messages. She asks for one warm template, then fills in names herself.

WHICH LIST DOES IT BELONG ON?
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
A recording of a child reading a poem aloud belongs first on which list?
A spreadsheet of student reading grades belongs first on which list?
The password to Rosa's online shop belongs on which list?
StatementTrue or false?
The Department of Education says general AI models are usually built with student privacy in mind.?
Under FERPA, a date of birth can be an indirect identifier.?
The SBA advises feeding proprietary information into AI tools.?
Rosa can ask for a template and add customer names herself.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEEach list rests on a source, and each fix keeps the useful part of the task.
Teachers should use only tools their school or ____ has approved.
Rosa asks for one warm ____, then adds names herself.
Under COPPA, a child is a person under the age of ____.
Your track: name the first item on your own never-paste list.
WHY THIS EXERCISEYour list is most useful when it starts with your biggest risk.

Sources: 16 CFR Part 312, COPPA Rule (eCFR) · 34 CFR 99.3, FERPA definitions (eCFR) · US Department of Education, AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning (2023) · NIST AI 600-1 (2024) · US Small Business Administration, AI for small businesses

Tomorrow: a short review of the week.

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