<div dir="ltr">Hey Eric,<div><br></div><div>Thanks so much for looking into this.</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like the IL SOPPA law is not quite as clear-cut as I was lead to believe, but my district is leery due to Facebook's general privacy practices. Despite this, I'm working hard to convince them that we need to find some solution that doesn't involve throwing away all our district's Oculus hardware.</div><div><br></div><div>My understanding is that the Oculus only accounts aren't explicitly compliant but would probably slip by in many schools because the IL SOPPA law isn't really written to apply to non-educational products and companies. That being said, it is much easier to get a school or district to sign on to a product if it is affirmatively compliant with typical educational privacy policies.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 12:23 PM Eric Brown <<a href="mailto:ewbrown@andrew.cmu.edu">ewbrown@andrew.cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Bill,<br>
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This is a good reminder that I have meant to reach out to people I know at facebook to hear their thoughts on this issue. As of now you can elect not link it to a facebook account but they do say that will change within a year I believe. I was strongly hoping they would roll back this requirement for this very reason or provide a different avenue for schools. <br>
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I will also do some testing to see if there is a way to put the rift s in developer mode or some other work around to get content to the device. I am curious if the required Oculus account that is required now is also not compliant? It is a challenge because I believe the HTC Vive and others all also require an account for their device or steam etc to power them…<br>
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If anyone else has any input in this conversation I am very interested to hear. I will let everyone know if I hear anything from people at Oculus or Facebook.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Eric<br>
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