Fordham Law School Professor Joel Reidenberg spoke to Marketplace about the dangers of school cafeterias collecting data about individual students’ eating choices.
“The transaction can be rather detailed,” says Joel Reidenberg, a professor at Fordham University and a student data privacy expert. “Over time, that builds a profile of a child’s eating habits.”
Reidenberg says in some schools, cafeteria payment services are run by private contractors.
“Schools have lost control about the information about their children when they start using these outsourced services,” he says.
Read more about Reidenberg’s cafeteria data concerns.