Professor Joel Reidenberg was quoted in The Washington Post where he discusses the new education program Summit Basecamp (created with the help of Facebook engineers), which tailors lessons to individual students using software that tracks their academic progress. The article mentions that parents were asked to sign a consent form for their children to participate, allowing their personal data to be shared with companies such as Facebook and Google.
“There’s a lot of hype,” said Joel Reidenberg, a Fordham University law professor who researches student privacy. “In effect, they are experimenting on children.”