MODPA compliance for an education platform
Maryland Online Data Privacy Act. This page applies it to one kind of product (education platform), so you get the obligations that are actually yours instead of a summary of the whole statute.
Does it apply to you?
35,000+ Maryland consumers, or 10,000+ with revenue from selling data. Bans the sale of sensitive data outright.
What an education platform typically processes
- learner records and progress data
- data about minors, which triggers extra duties
- school or institution as a separate controller
Each of these is processing you have to disclose. Adding an SDK later adds to this list — which is why a policy written once goes stale.
Documents you need
The intersection of what MODPA requires and what an education platform actually does:
- Privacy policy
Rights you must honour
MODPA gives people in Maryland the right to:
- Access a copy of their data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Have their data deleted
- Receive their data in a portable format
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of their data
- Opt out of profiling and targeted advertising
- Not be discriminated against for exercising a right
Cookies and trackers
Trackers may load by default, but the visitor needs a working way to opt out, and you must honour it.
MODPA also requires you to honour a universal opt-out signal, so a browser sending Global Privacy Control must be treated as having opted out — without the visitor clicking anything.
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Primary sources
- MODPA — Maryland Online Data Privacy Act · official text
MODPA for other kinds of product
Other frameworks for an education platform
This page is an engineering summary of publicly available regulatory requirements, generated from LexVibe's framework registry — not legal advice. Every framework links to its official text so you can check it yourself. For decisions about your own compliance posture, consult the primary sources and a lawyer qualified in the relevant jurisdiction.