The state exists for the people. They serve me (and you). Publicly traded corporations are very different. My tax dollars pay for the government to operate an

The state exists for the people. They serve me (and you). Publicly traded corporations are very different. My tax dollars pay for the government to operate and collect data. Not so much for publicly traded companies. That being said, for publicly traded corporations there are regulations on what data they must release, but I think it’s mainly about financial performance. So a private education system would not need to release anonymized data on its students. But a public education system has a legal duty.