Educational test provider College Board reached a $750,000 settlement with New York state over allegations it improperly licensed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of local students, marking the first time a state has fined the education nonprofit over data-sharing practices.
College Board, which offers courses and exams for high school students, collects data from students and then licenses that information to colleges and other customers.
An investigation by the New York attorney general’s office found the nonprofit had licensed data of New York students to more than 1,000 institutions from 2018 to 2022 through its Student Search Service ...
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