California Business and Professions Code § 22584

(a) For purposes of this chapter: (1) “California Consumer Privacy Act-excluded covered information” or “CCPA-excluded covered information” means covered information that is not subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Title 1.81.5 (commencing with Section 1798.100) of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code). (2) “Covered information” means personally identifiable information or materials, in any media or format that meets any of the following: (A) Is created or provided by a pupil, or the pupil’s parent or legal guardian, to an operator in the course of the pupil’s, parent’s, or legal guardian’s use of the operator’s site, service, or application for K–12 school purposes. (B) Is created or provided by an employee or agent of the school or local educational agency to an operator. (C) Is gathered by an operator through the operation of a site, service, or application described in paragraph (6) and is descriptive of a pupil or otherwise identifies a pupil, including, but not limited to, information in the pupil’s educational record or email, first and last name, home address, telephone number, email address, or other information that allows physical or online contact, discipline records, test results, special education data, juvenile dependency records, grades, evaluations, criminal records, medical records, health records, social security number, biometric information, disabilities, socioeconomic information, food purchases, political affiliations, religious information, text messages, documents, pupil identifiers, search activity, photographs, voice recordings, or geolocation information. (3) “K–12 school purposes” means purposes that customarily take place at the direction of the K–12 school, teacher, or local educational agency or aid in the administration of school activities, including, but not limited to, instruction in the classroom or at home, administrative activities, and collaboration between pupils, school personnel, or parents, or are for the use and benefit of the school. (4) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or the state special schools for the blind and the deaf. (5) “National assessment provider” means a person that develops, sponsors, or administers standardized tests. (6) “Online service” includes cloud computing services, which must comply with this section if they otherwise meet the definition of an operator. (7) “Operator” means the operator of an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application with actual knowledge that the site, service, or application is used primarily for K–12 school purposes and was designed and marketed for K–12 school purposes. (8) “Pupil” means a student enrolled in a K–12 course of instruction. (9) “Standardized test” means a test administered in California at the expense of the test subject that meets either of the following criteria: (A) The test is used for the purposes of admission to, or class placement in, postsecondary educational institutions or their programs. (B) The test is used for preliminary preparation for a test described in subparagraph (A). (b) An operator shall not knowingly engage in any of the following activities with respect to their site, service, or application: (1) (A) Engage in targeted advertising on the operator’s site, service, or application, or (B) target advertising on any other site, service, or application when the targeting of the advertising is based upon any information, including covered information and persistent unique identifiers, that the operator has acquired because of the use of that operator’s site, service, or application described in paragraph (6) of subdivision (a). (2) Use information, including persistent unique identifiers, created or gathered by the operator’s site, service, or application, to amass a profile about a pupil enrolled in a local educational a

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