College Board, ACT sued over sale of student information

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<p>"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.</p>

<p>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." …</p>

<p>“Sharing.” That’s like losing your health insurance is “transitioning.”</p>

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<p>"The lawsuit says the companies collect details about those students – such as their names, home addresses, birth dates, phone numbers and social security numbers – and sell it at a price of 33 cents per student, per buyer, but “at no time disclosed” to test-takers that their information would be sold “to third parties for monetary gain.”
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<p>The article implies that college board has sold student social security numbers. Is this actually the case?</p>