As part of a study on the marketplace for student data, researchers at the Fordham Law Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) called a few different data brokers, looking to see what kinds of limits exist, if any, for the commercial use of student data.

One of the data brokers they called followed up with a voice message, responding presumably to CLIP researchers’ requests for student information. A salesperson from the data broker called back “just wanting to touch base regarding that marketing list you had requested from us. I know that your target audience was fourteen and fifteen [sic] year old girls for family planning services. I can definitely do the list you’re looking for.”

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