The educational setting has been the backdrop for numerous debates as far back as recorded history. Today's educational setting, however, contains technological elements so advanced that they by their very nature bring with them a series of highly significant implications which educators have never before been required to address. These issues reside primarily in the area of the individual user's data, including its collection, storage, privacy, and dissemination. To contextualize this issue, this article first briefly presents some of education's most prominent educational debates of the recent past, and then progresses to examine issues associated with today's educational technology setting pertaining to data collection, storage, safety, and privacy. Suggestions for further examination of this subject are provided, as well as the claim that this is a subject that "all" educators, not just educational technologists, will be required to fully understand and possess strategies for dealing with it.