{"id":224632,"date":"2026-03-17T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy-boston-university-news-service\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:15:13","slug":"doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy-boston-university-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy-boston-university-news-service\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ lawsuit against Harvard raises concerns over student privacy \u2013 Boston University News Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy\/\">DOJ lawsuit against Harvard raises concerns over student privacy \u2013 Boston University News Service<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy\/\">https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 11:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"bunewsservice.com\">bunewsservice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A view of Harvard University and the Charles River on Apr. 15, 2025 in Cambridge, Mass. (Courtesy of AP Photo\/Charles Krupa).<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Elena Pejic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boston University News Service<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice that accuses Harvard University of refusing to provide admissions data confirming the university has stopped using affirmative action in its admissions process is raising concerns over student privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit has its origins in the 2023 Supreme Court decision Students for Fair Admissions, Inc (SFFA) v. President &#038; Fellows of Harvard Coll. which ruled 6-3 that Harvard\u2019s admissions program was in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment\u2019s Equal Protection Clause for the manner in which it considered race as a factor in admissions.<\/p>\n<p>The administration opened a federal compliance review of the Ivy League institution last April, saying that Harvard has to hand over five years of admissions data for undergraduate, law, and medical programs by Apr. 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the administration is saying they have still not received the data and that Harvard has \u201cthwarted\u201d efforts by the DOJ to \u201cinvestigate potential discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarvard has failed to disclose the data we need to ensure that its admissions are free of discrimination \u2014 we will continue fighting to put merit over DEI across America,\u201d said U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard responded by saying it has upheld the Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 ruling on requiring colleges to stop considering race in the admissions process, with Harvard University spokesperson Jason Newton saying in a statement that the university is \u201ccommitted to following the law, including civil rights laws in connection with admissions and financial aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvard Magazine Managing Editor Jonathan Shaw added that demographic data for Harvard\u2019s two classes admitted following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc (SFFA) v&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ lawsuit against Harvard raises concerns over student privacy \u2013 Boston University News Service https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/doj-lawsuit-against-harvard-raises-concerns-over-student-privacy\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x682.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224634,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224632\/revisions\/224634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}