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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by lolinder on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:45AM (#37261667)
This is overly harsh. The spokesperson assumed they were being accused of abusing their position of running the SAT by actually sending real SAT scores directly to Facebook, so they responded accordingly.

Instead they were abusing their position of trust to get students to enter the scores again themselves and sending that. Still not great, but not a lie on the spokesperson's part, just a misunderstanding of what was meant.

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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by peyton on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:02AM (#37261855)
They lied.
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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by lolinder on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:07AM (#37261910)
No, they didn't, they responded to the question they thought they were being asked. The form fields on their college search page weren't even in their working memory at the time.

This is a case of the College Board negligently failing to recognize these fields as sensitive data, not a case of them outright lying. Still bad, obviously, but stupid rather than nefarious.

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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by hiatus on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:16AM (#37261993)
So if they are this stupid, why are they trusted to administer these tests?
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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by lolinder on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:20AM (#37262034)
I think they shouldn't be, but that's a separate question from whether this spokesperson lied.
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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by wouldbecouldbe on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:47AM (#37261692)
it's kind of like a developer saying: "not on my browser"
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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by wouldbecouldbe on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:42AM (#37262266)
At best it's incompetence/lack of due diligence.
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