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Important Artificial Intelligence (AI) FERPA/COPPA/Privacy Considerations

Facts you should be aware of

• AI products can be incredible tools when individuals understand the privacy risks and considerations

• Most (all?) Free AI tools (exceptions: Google Gemini for Education and other FERPA compliant AI tools) take any information and questions you feed into it and add that data to their public AI database to allow it to improve its future responses

  • It's possible that the data you feed in could come back out to another individual in part or in whole (although rare)

  • Your data goes into a database (public in many cases) owned by the AI company

  • Is your data being sold?

  • What happens with the data if the company goes out of business or gets hacked?

  • Use AI products safely (see bullets below)

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