Bill Text: MI SB0510 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Communications; Internet; student online personal protection act; establish. Create new act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-28 - Assigned Pa 0368'16 With Immediate Effect [SB0510 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0510-Engrossed.html
SB-0510, As Passed Senate, November 4, 2015
SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 510
A bill to prohibit the disclosure or use of certain
information.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"student online personal protection act".
Sec. 3. As used in this act:
(a) "Covered information" means personally identifiable
information or material in any media or format that is any of the
following:
(i) Created by or provided to an operator by a student, or the
student's parent or legal guardian, in the course of the student's,
parent's, or legal guardian's use of the operator's site, service,
or application for K–12 school purposes.
(ii) Created by or provided to an operator by an employee or
agent of a K-12 school or school district for K-12 school purposes.
(iii) Gathered by an operator through the operation of a site,
service, or application for K-12 school purposes and personally
identifies a student, including, but not limited to, information in
the student's educational record or electronic mail, first and last
name, home address, telephone number, electronic mail address, or
other information that allows physical or online contact,
discipline records, test results, special education data, juvenile
dependency records, grades, evaluations, criminal records, medical
records, health records, social security number, biometric
information, disabilities, socioeconomic information, food
purchases, political affiliations, religious information, text
messages, documents, student identifiers, search activity, photos,
voice recordings, or geolocation information.
(b) "Interactive computer service" means that term as defined
in 47 USC 230.
(c) "K-12 school" means a school that offers any of grades
kindergarten to 12 and that is operated by a school district.
(d) "K–12 school purposes" means purposes that are directed by
or that customarily take place at the direction of a K-12 school,
teacher, or school district or aid in the administration of school
activities, including, but not limited to, instruction in the
classroom or at home, administrative activities, and collaboration
between students, school personnel, or parents, or are for the use
and benefit of the school.
(e) "Operator" means, to the extent that it is operating in
this capacity, the operator of an Internet website, online service,
online application, or mobile application with actual knowledge
that the site, service, or application is used primarily for K–12
school purposes and was designed and marketed for K–12 school
purposes.
(f) "School district" means a school district, intermediate
school district, or public school academy, as those terms are
defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1 to
380.1852.
(g) "Service provider" means a person or entity that provides
a service that enables users to access content, information,
electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet or a
computer network.
(h) "Targeted advertising" means presenting an advertisement
to a student where the advertisement is selected based on
information obtained or inferred from that student's online
behavior, usage of applications, or covered information. Targeted
advertising does not include advertising to a student at an online
location based upon that student's current visit to that location
or single search query without the collection and retention of a
student's online activities over time.
Sec. 5. (1) An operator shall not knowingly do any of the
following:
(a) Engage in targeted advertising on the operator's site,
service, or application, or target advertising on any other site,
service, or application if the targeting of the advertising is
based on any information, including covered information and
persistent unique identifiers, that the operator has acquired
because of the use of that operator's site, service, or application
for K-12 school purposes.
(b) Use information, including persistent unique identifiers,
created or gathered by the operator's site, service, or
application, to amass a profile about a student except in
furtherance of K–12 school purposes. As used in this subdivision,
"amass a profile" does not include the collection and retention of
account registration records or information that remains under the
control of the student, the student's parent or guardian, or K-12
school.
(c) Sell or rent a student's information, including covered
information. This subdivision does not apply to the purchase,
merger, or other type of acquisition of an operator by another
entity, if the operator or successor entity complies with this
section regarding previously acquired student information.
(d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (3), disclose
covered information unless the disclosure is made for the following
purposes:
(i) In furtherance of the K–12 school purpose of the site,
service, or application, if the recipient of the covered
information disclosed under this subparagraph does not further
disclose the information unless done to allow or improve
operability and functionality of the operator's site, service, or
application.
(ii) To ensure legal and regulatory compliance or protect
against liability.
(iii) To respond to or participate in the judicial process.
(iv) To protect the safety or integrity of users of the site
or others or the security of the site, service, or application.
(v) For a school, educational, or employment purpose requested
by the student or the student's parent or guardian, provided that
that information is not used or further disclosed for any other
purpose.
(vi) To a service provider, if the operator contractually
prohibits the service provider from using any covered information
for any purpose other than providing the contracted service to or
on behalf of the operator, prohibits the service provider from
disclosing any covered information provided by the operator with
subsequent third parties, and requires the service provider to
implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and
practices. This subparagraph does not prohibit the operator's use
of information for maintaining, developing, supporting, improving,
or diagnosing the operator's site, service, or application.
(2) An operator shall do all of the following:
(a) Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and
practices appropriate to the nature of the covered information, and
protect that covered information from unauthorized access,
destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.
(b) Delete a student's covered information if the K-12 school
or school district requests deletion of covered information under
the control of the K-12 school or school district.
(3) An operator may use or disclose covered information of a
student under the following circumstances:
(a) If other provisions of federal or state law require the
operator to disclose the information, and the operator complies
with the requirements of federal and state law in protecting and
disclosing that information.
(b) For legitimate research purposes as required by state or
federal law and subject to the restrictions under applicable state
and federal law or as allowed by state or federal law and under the
direction of a K-12 school, school district, or state department of
education, if covered information is not used for advertising or to
amass a profile on the student for purposes other than K–12 school
purposes.
(c) To a state or local educational agency, including K-12
schools and school districts, for K–12 school purposes, as
permitted by state or federal law.
(4) This section does not prohibit an operator from doing any
of the following:
(a) Using covered information that is not associated with an
identified student within the operator's site, service, or
application or other sites, services, or applications owned by the
operator to improve educational products.
(b) Using covered information that is not associated with an
identified student to demonstrate the effectiveness of the
operator's products or services, including in their marketing.
(c) Sharing covered information that is not associated with an
identified student for the development and improvement of
educational sites, services, or applications.
(d) Using recommendation engines to recommend to a student
either of the following:
(i) Additional content relating to an educational, other
learning, or employment opportunity purpose within the operator's
site, service, or application if the recommendation is not
determined in whole or in part by payment or other consideration
from a third party.
(ii) Additional services relating to an educational, other
learning, or employment opportunity purpose within the operator's
site, service, or application if the recommendation is not
determined in whole or in part by payment or other consideration
from a third party.
(e) Responding to a student's request for information or for
feedback to help improve learning without the information or
response being determined in whole or in part by payment or other
consideration from a third party.
(5) This section does not do any of the following:
(a) Limit the authority of a law enforcement agency to obtain
any content or information from an operator as authorized by law or
under a court order.
(b) Limit the ability of an operator to use student data,
including covered information, for adaptive learning or customized
student learning purposes.
(c) Apply to general audience Internet websites, general
audience online services, general audience online applications, or
general audience mobile applications, even if login credentials
created for an operator's site, service, or application may be used
to access those general audience sites, services, or applications.
(d) Limit service providers from providing Internet
connectivity to schools or students and their families.
(e) Prohibit an operator of an Internet website, online
service, online application, or mobile application from marketing
educational products directly to parents if the marketing did not
result from the use of covered information obtained by the operator
through the provision of services covered under this section.
(f) Impose a duty upon a provider of an electronic store,
gateway, marketplace, or other means of purchasing or downloading
software or applications to review or enforce compliance with this
section on those applications or software.
(g) Impose a duty upon a provider of an interactive computer
service to review or enforce compliance with this section by third-
party content providers.
(h) Prohibit students from downloading, exporting,
transferring, saving, or maintaining their own student data or
documents.
Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the
date it is enacted into law.
