NY will share your child's private info with private companies w/o your permission.

[madfloridian]

New York is going "to share confidential NYC student and teacher data" with the Shared Learning Collaborative, funded by the Gates Foundation.

I don't understand how they can do this without notifying the parents. We had to let parents know about anything we did concerning their children.

From Parents Across America:

Parents beware NY and eight other states plan to share your child’s confidential school records
with a group funded by Gates Foundation.

The data to be shared will include the names of students, their grades, test scores, disciplinary and attendance records, and likely race, ethnicity, free lunch and special education status as well.

These records are to be stored in a massive electronic data bank, being built by Wireless Generation, a subsidiary of News Corporation. News Corporation is owned by Rupert Murdoch and has been found to illegally violate the privacy of individuals in Great Britain and in the United States.

Yes, Wireless Generation is part of Murdoch's empire.

Over the next few months, the Gates Foundation plans to turn over all this personal data to another, as yet unnamed corporation, headed by Iwan Streichenberger, the former marketing director of a company called Promethean that sells whiteboards, based in Atlanta GA.

Many are concerned this violates student privacy. There is a Federal law protecting student privacy, called FERPA (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), which allows states or districts to disclose students' personally identifiable education records without parental consent only in very limited circumstances and under stringent conditions, none of which apply in this case.

Moreover, we have learned that this confidential information is to be put on a cloud managed by Amazon.com, with few if any protections against data leakage.

[Atman]

1. Getting marketing base ready for privatized school push

They'll be wanting to cherry pick the good students. They'll know in advance, and won't have to waste time selling to the "losers."

[LWolf]

2. I hope there are some parents

who will take them to court over this.

[AdHocSolver]

3. Any misstep in your youth will be logged and can, and probably will, be used against you.

This information has nothing to do with helping children learn. It has everything to do with exploiting children for profit.

These databases containing your child's personal information will be considered proprietary and you will not be allowed to see it.

However, your child's personal data will be available to insurance companies, potential employers, car dealers, banks, drug companies, and other corporations and government agencies willing to pay a hefty fee for the privilege of spying on your child's life.

This data base will allow any teacher, future employer, or any "authority figure" holding a grudge against you or your child, to put negative "information", whether true or totally fabricated, into these proprietary databases, to which, since they are proprietary, even though sold to practically anybody, you will not have access or oversight.

The possibility for abuse is endless. The potential abuses perpetrated by "legitimate" buyers of your child's data far exceed the threat of hackers stealing it. One has to understand the big picture.

How soon we forget the abuses of credit rating company databases.

[HiPointDem]

7. +1

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. And.... "reform" just got even creepier.

Kinda like Gates asking his dates in college what their SAT scores were.

It is said that that was his "breaking the ice" question.

No. Not weird at all. It's all perfectly normal

[Jefferson23]

5. This is truly appalling and smacks in the face of privacy under FERPA and IDEA. How in

the hell it has reached this new low is frightening.

My concern is there is so little to no coverage of this by the MSM, how will parents
be aware it is about to go into effect? The ACLU is fighting this or preparing to do so, as
I understand it BUT...there should be a rally from all parents and likely would be if they
knew.

Fuck Gates and the rest of them too.

[savebigbird]

6. Is this the case with the other states

that chose to purchase Wireless Generation's services, or just New York?