"Without consent" is misleading and implies that everything is ok if they asked for consent. In reality, students are effectively coerced into giving consent if they want to graduate.
When I went to University a few years ago no alternative was offered for almost all programs we used, even third party. Online submissions and gradebook (hosted canvas), anti-plagiarism (usually turnitin), etc. All these critical or straight up requires services I had to agree to. Maybe if I had made enough of a fuss I could have got an exemption but there was no easy way.
I'd argue in privacy-related legislature like the GDPR students should be treated as incapable of consenting (to services used with their school), similar to how children are incapable of consenting to sex.
When I went to University a few years ago no alternative was offered for almost all programs we used, even third party. Online submissions and gradebook (hosted canvas), anti-plagiarism (usually turnitin), etc. All these critical or straight up requires services I had to agree to. Maybe if I had made enough of a fuss I could have got an exemption but there was no easy way.
I'd argue in privacy-related legislature like the GDPR students should be treated as incapable of consenting (to services used with their school), similar to how children are incapable of consenting to sex.