Keystone Oaks to Publish App List Under New Privacy Rules | The Locally Times
The district will publish a list of approved digital tools and their privacy policies to comply with updated federal regulations by April 22, 2026.
The district stated its goal is to achieve full compliance with the updated requirements by April 22, 2026. COPPA requires companies to state what information they collect from children under 13, how it is used, and to obtain parental consent. The district’s notice acknowledged its responsibility to be transparent about the applications students use. To meet this obligation, the district announced it is publishing an online, searchable list of all approved digital tools. This list will include links to each company’s privacy policy, allowing families to review the software used in classrooms and understand how student information is protected. ## Unlisted Apps and Missing Details Beyond the suite of Google products, the district notice states that school administrators enable student access to other third-party services using their Google Workspace for Education accounts. The document reports that an administrator authorizes this access but does not name any of the specific third-party applications. The public record does not yet include the online list of approved digital tools, so a comprehensive inventory of software that collects student data is not currently available. The notice also does not detail the specific changes to the federal COPPA rule that prompted these preparations, nor does it outline the methods the district will use to obtain and manage parental consent for these digital learning tools.