After “human error” resulted in every eighth-grade family in one school receiving all eighth-graders’ report cards, The Washington Post reports on “a larger problem: the rush in every sector of society to go online without first considering the potential pitfalls.” Breaches of corporate and government websites illustrate that “privacy isn’t certain anymore, anywhere,” the report states, citing recent legislative efforts to protect students’ data from third parties but not from their own schools. “It’s past time we think about the consequences of our digital lives—and schools should be part of that conversation,” the report states.
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