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Advocates say companies, schools invade student privacy with data mining

Posted on April 8, 2015June 30, 2025 by Dissent

Moriah Costa reports:

Susan Buzin never thought she would homeschool her children.

But after researching data changes to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, school district, she discovered that loopholes in the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act means her children’s identifying information is released to third-party vendors and collected into a data system.

“It makes me very angry that parents still believe, if they don’t know a lot of this going on… that their child’s information is being kept private,” she said.

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