Makers of SAT, ACT sued for selling students’ personal information
It looks like the makers of two of the country’s most important scholastic tests will be undergoing an examination of their own….a legal one.
The companies that administer the SAT and ACT college entrance exams are being sued over their sales of students’ personal information to outside parties.
A lawsuit filed this week contends that the College Board, which runs the SAT, and ACT, Inc., sell identifying information about the hundreds of thousands of teenagers who take the exams each year without the students’ consent.
The test companies are “masking the sale” of personal details about the students “under the guise of ‘sharing’” the teens’ information with other agencies, the suit says. It says the companies don’t disclose to students that their personal information will be sold for profit.
Makers of SAT, ACT sued over sale of students’ personal information (The Daily Caller)
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So, that’s how all those outfits got my name and address? (40 years ago)
Shameful. Who do they think they are, government employees?
It sounds as though the problem is the sale for profit, but “sharing” for non-profit would have been just fine?
I have strong feelings about someone sharing my information. I don’t see the significance between a commercial transaction and charity if my privacy has been violated.