Don’t blame scrum/agile for bad decisions made to appease business executives. A product owner’s role is to seek input from stakeholders and then make decisions to satisfy those stakeholders and the company’s business directives.
Companies were making poor technical decisions for short term business reasons long before agile became popular.
The cancer you seek is actually called capitalism.
The main problem with American higher education is the profit motive. As is often the case, capitalism eventually ruins everything, especially when it’s treated as the state religion.
How has this broken any privacy policy? To me this seems like general information that can’t possibly be traced back to any individual users or groups of users.