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by Spooky23 1054 days ago
What is the nature of the data?

ACLU is often manipulative in how these stories are framed. They are an advocacy group advocating for their priorities.

If the headline was “Researchers publish confidential student data through litigation filings”, the crowd here would be pearl clutching about that. You may recall years ago when NYC released taxi data on their open data platform, that data let you basically track the movements of frequent taxi users.

The other question is… why don’t the researchers file a FOIA, which has no restrictions.