Higher education institutions collect and use significant amounts of students’ data in order to improve teaching, learning, advising, and other services that benefit students. Yet, research shows that college students often do not know how their institutions use their data, and students are wary of privacy violations resulting from institutions’ use of facial recognition, networking monitoring, online learning, and predictive analytics systems.

Park, J., & Vance, A. (2021, October 25). Higher education voices: College students’ attitudes toward data privacy. Student Privacy Compass. https://studentprivacycompass.org/resource/higheredvoices2021/