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Comment by droithomme | Hacker News Reader

Wait a minute, is this taking private information about minors and, without guardian consent, using a proprietary API to give the information to private industry for-profit corporations?

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Co-founder of Clever here. Clever is a more efficient and secure way for schools to connect their learning applications with their SIS database. No data is shared otherwise. Clever helps schools stay compliant with FERPA, the federal laws on student privacy.

I'm working on an education startup. Where can I find a good comparison between you and LearnSprout?

Hey Jeff_29, I work on partnerships at LearnSprout and the best way to get a good look is to just contact both companies. You can reach me at emily@learnsprout.com.

If anything, I would expect to see Clever and LearnSprout both to enable schools to have a finer-grained control over their data above and beyond their existing integrations with third-parties. At this point, many of those integrations are pretty poorly thought out and, as a result, many schools are likely over-sharing data in order to "just get it done."

Of course, many existing SIS integration tools provide such capabilities, it's just that they are overly cumbersome to implement and use and so very often aren't.

Schools and enterprise businesses have a lot more in common than you'd think...

Allow me to introduce you to the "Business Associates" loophole to FERPA and HIPAA:

http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/covereden...

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