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The School Spy Boom Nobody Asked For. .@Instructure, the company behind the "learning management" system used by nearly half of North American #universities, just paid a #criminal HACKER group for a promise that STOLEN DATA had been destroyed. The breach hit 8,809 institutions and exposed BILLIONs of private student messages, the kind written under an assumption of confidentiality, **on a platform none of those students chose to use** But the breach itself isn't the real story. The real story is the sprawling #Surveillance #infrastructure that schools have quietly built around students, the FINANCIAL incentives keeping it in place, and why the next BREACH will be far worse... We explore this today... [sub neeed] https://reclaimthenet.org/the-school-spy-boom-nobody-asked-for