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I mean if you are a professor and knowledgeable in how the startup uses the data, it’s hardly justifiable that “oh crap i didn’t know they were using it for ill

I mean if you are a professor and knowledgeable in how the startup uses the data, it’s hardly justifiable that “oh crap i didn’t know they were using it for illegal purposes”. They were totally complicit allegedly.

romellem 4y ago
This is spoken to [in the full complaint][1]. The data scientist was told Frank really did have 4 million users, and the scientist only needed to generate this "synthetic data" as a way to "anonymize" their "real" data. I.e. the scientist was duped: JAVICE told Scientist-1 [...] that she had a database of approximately 4 million people and wanted to create a database of anonymized data that mirrored the statistical properties of the original database (the “Synthetic Data Set”). [After JAVICE sends Scientist-1 the data], Scientist-1 understood that the data available via the Access Link Email - **a data set of approximately 142,000 people** (emphasis added) - was a random sample of a larger database which contained data for approximately 4 million people. In fact, that data represented every Frank user who had at least started a FAFSA. [1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1577861/download https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1577861...