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Stephen Downes

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Legal action has been launched against a New York company that may have decieved students in order to collect personal information. The company is alleged to have CRLFencouraged teachers to collect data that was then sold to marketers. Students were "left with the impression that the information that is gathered will generate a survey and then will be used by universities to help these students. Nowhere in this letter does it say that SMG is a marketing company."

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