Stephen Downes

To be honest, I would trust a 'seal' like this about as much as I trust the 'Canada' labels being applied in grocery stores by American companies on American products being sold in Canada. Public schools may comply, but the motivation is just not there for a private company to follow social standards, and their allegiance to them will last (as has been demonstrated repeatedly over time) only as long as the financial incentive does. And it's pretty easy to, as they say, fake the data. But props to CoSN for at least trying to set a standard for student data privacy, along with an urging to keep fees as 'nominal' as possible.