Student data for sale? Suit alleges privacy breach.
CollegeNET (www.collegenet.com), a firm that manages online applications for colleges and universities, filed a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. last month against the XAP XAP Experimental Aerial Platforms corporation (www.xap.com), charging that XAP sold student data to lenders. The suit alleges that XAP assured schools of the confidentiality Restrictions on the accessibility and dissemination of information. Confidentiality is one of the six fundamental components of information security (see Parkerian Hexad). of data it collected on their behalf, but "regularly provided student information to student loan lenders, loan guarantors and others," without informing schools or students. "A student's information collected online should be handled with the same degree of confidentiality as colleges themselves use for traditional paper applications," said Jim Wolfston, president of CollegeNET.
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