"So who is bad?
Officials? Laws?
"Or people themselves?"
Yes. The true answer is 'yes.' Everyone is bad according to someone. What parents need to decide is what is bad for their kids. When my eldest was headhunted by Georgetown, the premier university in the world for politicians, I wanted him to take their scholarship and gain that education so that he could be one of the movers and shakers in the world, write his own ticket, decide for himself what his career would be. He declined, actually telling me he'd rather be a dishwasher and live a good life than wrassle the Jabberwocky of political power all his days. I was not in agreement, but he was who made the decision, as such continuing education was not the province of parents to determine, but the adults that undertook it.
In fact I was outraged. However, from the perspective I now have, a view of his good and happy life, and the sort of classmates he'd have had at Georgetown, people like Paul Pelosi, Charles Prince, and all the Trump children, I today am fervently happy he had the foresight and the intestinal fortitude to stand up to me and determine his own way in life.
That is the purpose of parents and education: to enable our posterity to determine for themselves what is best and right for them. I doubt very much being enrolled in digital services that abuse the personal information of the students for whatever purposes the state or program administrators have, or may come to have someday, is best for the kids involved. There are digital services that can be used, like Khan Academy, various free lectures from great universities, and much more, that parents can pick and choose from as they desire, that do not turn their child into a digital property of the almighty state.
Thanks!