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Is it unethical for a professor to send a mass e-mail with every student's graded assignment in one attachment? (context inside)

So a professor of mine just sent us an e-mail with a scanned copy of our graded assignment attached. What really bothers me is that she included everyone's assignment in the e-mail. This was not an unintentional mistake, as she stated in the e-mail that we need to scroll through the attachment and look for our assignment. These assignments were completely graded with comments written on them. We are a small cohort of nine undergraduate students in an honors research program, so I am sure that we will eventually be giving one another critiques of our theses. However, the point of this particular assignment was not to peer-review each other's work, and was to simply make an outline of our method's section for grading by the professor. I am not comfortable with other people seeing my assignment without my consent, nor am I comfortable with seeing other people's assignments. Would you consider this to be unethical, or at least unprofessional? And if it is, then what should I do? I don't know if it would be appropriate to confront the professor about it, and even if I did, I fear that it may cause some tension between us if I was to criticize her (I'll be taking classes from and working closely with her for the next year since she is the head of the program). Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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That certainly sounds like a FERPA violation to me, if it was done without your positive consent (assuming you're in the US). Technically, email is not considered a secure form of communication and graded assignments, or the grades themselves actually, are not supposed to be transmitted in that fashion. 

At the same time, in this research context, you should try to get yourself into the mindset of openness and the proper research and graduate outlook of 'grades don't matter'. If you want, maybe send a note of concern to your department chair, who can do something, but don't rock the boat too much either and just try to keep things in a longer-term perspective.