Owens College and SafeAssign

I'm shocked to find out that Owens is using SafeAssign. I never cheat, and have no problems with teachers checking my work for plagiarism. However I find it unsettling that I have no option to opt out of the service.

Basically whenever I or another student (at any school who uses this) submits their homework/test/paper, we automatically forfeit our rights to the material. SafeAssign is allowed to keep your paper forever and datamine as long as they like.

Personally this sounds like a copyright issue. Granted I probably won't win a prize for a well written paper, but the idea that I have to forfeit my rights or give them a perpetual ownership over what I've written and let them do as they wish is a bit worrisome. I pay the school for a service, not the other way around.

Then again worse things going on in the world but this is just the icing.

Curious what you all think about it.