Student privacy has been in the news again recently. Although selling data to marketers is always a concern, the deeper issue is the power imbalance it creates.

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that a social networking website for children agreed to settle charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The site collected the first and last names, the dates of birth, and the cities of origin of its 5,600 underage users. All of this is illegal under the […]