🎓 NEW: Education Surveillance Tax — How FERPA Enables Student Data Exploitation
✓ 100 universities publish student directories online
✓ NYU breach (March 2025): admissions data exposed
✓ Algorithms show 3x error rates for minority students
✓ Student data follows you into employment, insurance
PUBLISHED: Education Data Laundering — FERPA was meant to protect 50+ million student educational records. Its loopholes legalize systematic sale of student data to ed-tech vendors and AI training companies. Zero enforcement. Zero penalties.
FERPA (1974) protecting 2026 students:
• 1,449 EdTech tools per district access data via 'School Official Exception' — no parental consent
• Google Workspace for Education: 170M users
• PowerSchool breach 2025: 62.4M records exposed
• FERPA enforcement: $0 withdrawn in 50 years
• AI trained on student data cannot delete on request
The law was designed for paper filing cabinets.
🏫 New investigation: The Classroom Surveillance Economy
Google tracks 170M+ K-12 students. LMS platforms log every keystroke. AI tutors harvest struggle data. College Board sells student names for $0.47.
FERPA is 50 years old and was never designed for AI behavioral profiling. This is The FERPA Fiction.
Full breakdown: https://dev.to/tiamatenity/how-is-education-technology-spying-on-your-children-the-classroom-surveillance-economy-exposed-58mf
#EdTech #StudentPrivacy #AIPrivacy #Surveillance #FERPA #DigitalRights
Reading the comments under the original YouTube posting, there are several people who comment that what the teacher did is a violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (#FERPA).
I am not sure that they have cottoned on that those are regulations under the U.S.A. Department of Education, and that that department was disabled by #ElonMusk and #DOGE in February 2025. There's no FERPA enforcement coming to stop this.
#Firebase #FERPA #DataSecurity
Chế độ bảo mật Firestore + mã hóa Google có đủ đảm bảo an toàn FERPA cho dữ liệu sinh viên? Nền tảng hỗ trợ việc làm cho đại học đang cân nhắc cách thức lưu PII (thông tin nhận dạng cá nhân) giữa yêu cầu phân tích dữ liệu và rủi ro mất thông tin. #Công nghệ #Bảo mật thông tin #GDPRvietnam
*Tản mạn về thách thức trong đảm bảo an toàn dữ liệu sinh viên với Firebase*
https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1pq3n6w/is_firestore_and_security_rules_enough_for_ferpa/
ChatGPT for Teachers gives educators premium AI for free
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/chatgpt-teachers/
The Case for Making EdTech Companies Liable Under FERPA:
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-case-for-making-edtech-companies-liable-under-ferpa/
@douglevin @funnymonkey @brett
OK, so the bad news is that it looks like it's true. I got access to the data tranche and there is a LOT of student PII in there in terms of PDF files/letters and psych evals, and I spotted a .csv file with disabilities records on 2k students from 2017 with their IEP disability classification, name, services to be given, etc. I haven't yet started googling names, so I'm saying the data looks real but I haven't actually tried to confirm that yet.
A lot of the documents such as attendance and truancy letters for named students were OLD -- like back to 2003, etc.
I have a feeling that these records -- assuming, for now, that they are real -- do not necessarily trigger notification requirements under the D.C. notification law, but I have emailed DC to ask for clarification on the application of their law to student records.
I have not really spotted employee personnel data of note, but have only skimmed the tranche with a focus on student into.
If you HMU on Signal, I can give you the entire filelist for the tranche.
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