Hanif questions Amira's collection of student biometric voice data
Hanif raises concerns that Amira, a reading support tool, collects biometric voice data from students. Tara Carozza explains Amira uses student voice interactively for reading fluency practice, and under the data processing agreement, all data must be deleted after one year, hosted in the U.S., and not used to train other models.
Thank you, Chair.
I had asked about whether public schools were collecting biometric data.
And while the schools may not be retaining that information, it's my understanding that Amira
which is being used for reading support, is collecting biometric data.
And is that something you all know about?
What was the conversation with Amira around the storage of data specifically?
Thank you for your question.
I'm going to turn it over to Tara, but I really appreciate you giving us also the opportunity to share how that is used.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
I mean, I think that, you know, reading is one place where this technology is, I think, going to be a lifeline.
But in the same vein, if student voices are being collected and we're not sure where that
might be going to, who it is being used by aside from Amira, that is a problem.
Thank you for your question, Tara Carosa.
So Amira is using student voice in an interactive way with their AI agent in order to provide reading fluency practice, feedback targeted towards that
that individual students needs.
In terms of our data processing agreement with Amira and with all of our vendors, there's a one year data
And I'm going to pass it over to Dennis, but I'll share, you know, as I understand it.
After one year, all data has to be deleted.
It has to be hosted within the U.S.
And there is no use of student PII or biometric data that goes out to any other large language model used to train any other models used to be monetized.
So using any form of student data is not allowed to go out based on our data processing agreement.
And that agreement, can that be shared?
I'm going to pass it to Dennis as the chief data privacy officer.
Yeah, we generally don't share our data processing agreements publicly.
Why is that?
It's just like any other internal DEWE document.
We don't share it publicly.
I mean, it's really hard to then trust.
There is a portion of the agreement that is posted publicly.
It's the supplemental questionnaire.
Does it include this piece about the deletion after one year and commitment?
Yes, it does speak to how the vendor will...
I would love to just be pointed to where that is.