Lawsuit Against Google Highlights Mining of Student Data

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15951

Publisher:  CorpWatch
Date Written:  26/05/2014
Year Published:  2014  
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16455

Children have become lucrative targets for data mining companies, according to a study by Politico magazine. Just weeks after Google settled a lawsuit for selling student data for advertising, the publication revealed an entire industry devoted to marketing data gathered from Internet applications offered to students and their teachers.

Subject Headings

• Data Mining
• Online Advertising
• Students