School Makes Parents Consent to Childs Data Collection

School Makes Parents Consent to Childs Data Collection
Short Title	School Says Parents Must Consent to Their Children’s Personal Information Collection by Third Parties Including
Location	United States
Date
Solove Harm	Decisional Interference
Information	Identifying, Professional, Knowledge and Belief
Threat Actors	School, Google, Microsoft
Individuals
Affected	Pupils
High Risk Groups	Children
Tangible Harms

A school is forcing parents to agree to third parties (including Google and Microsoft) collecting their children personal information without giving an option to decline.

Description

A person posted that in order to enrol their child in school they must consent to personal information collection on their child by more than 10 different companies, including Google and Microsoft. There is no option to decline. This can be interpreted as Decisional Interference, because the school uses the position of power: it is extremely difficult for the parents to change schools last moment, so they are risking to be left with only the option of not sending the child to school at all.

This person tried having conversations with the school and even with the state's Educational Technology representative to opt out from this data collection, but it was unsuccessful.

Breakdown

Threat: School forces parents to consent to their children’s personal information collection by third parties
At-Risk group: pupils
Harm: Decisional Interference
Secondary Consequences: potentially Lost Opportunity: Education