Yeah I read recently that selling student data is a pretty common practice for colleges. It’s good income for them, and students aren’t able to track it easily so they don’t make a fuss.
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Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months agoMy college sold me out. (Or got hacked or something).
They misspelled my middle name and suddenly, I got bank offers and all sorts of weird shit with that misspelling. I’m actually thankful they misspelled it because it helped me pinpoint my shitty college as the culprit.
I won’t be surprised high schools do it too. A little “oops I didn’t know” deniability and “fuck those kids” adult mentality.
restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I went to a state school in the early 90s. Taking a specific sequence of physics classes was the cue for Navy nuke tech recruiters. And they were aggressive. Turns out someone in the registrar’s office would search for students with that class sequence and sell the info to Navy recruiters. The person got fired, and there was a bunch of pearl-clutching. And yet military recruiters are still such a fixture of college campuses.