Firms Settle Charges of Breaking Privacy Laws
From Staff and Wire Reports
Two companies that promised to use data from millions of students for educational purposes have agreed to settle federal charges they broke privacy laws by selling the information to credit card, insurance and other companies, the government said.
Educational Research Center of America of Pittsburgh and Student Marketing Group of Lynbrook, N.Y., were ordered by the Federal Trade Commission to destroy any information they had acquired from children under 13.
Since at least 1999, the companies have surveyed millions of students, the FTC said.
