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Stephen Downes

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The penalty - a fine of $75,000 - is nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Not even. The real penalty being paid by The Student Marketing Group and its nonprofit subsidiary, the Educational Research Center of America, is that they will no longer be able to collect student data for "educational purposes" and sell that data to marketers. Well, not without paying another $75K, at least.CRLF

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