Fordham Study Finds School Districts Lax on Data Protection
Fordham Institute released a study on school districts’ use of cloud technology in their student data collection, storage and dissemination. Schools are looking to this new technology for its cost […]
View ArticleHundreds of Data Points For MOSIS
Last spring the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) testified that it only collects 61 data points on each public school student in the state. Here is the […]
View ArticleGuernsey Data Bill Ready
Missouri House Representative Casey Guernsey is ready to file a Student Data Privacy bill that will limit the data collected on our children and put back reasonable restrictions on who […]
View ArticleAlert: This is Why You Have to Opt Your Child Out & Support Data Privacy...
From a Missouri parent: Privacy…I don’t think it means what I thought it meant.My daughter came home from school the other day with two papers. One was the form with lines […]
View ArticleMissouri Data Bills Heard
At the capitol this week, SB819 and HB1873, both of which protect student data privacy, were heard. The Senate Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight Committee heard SB819, sponsored by...
View ArticlePioneer “Cogs In The Machine” Report on Data Collection
Last month Pioneer Institute released a report titled, “Cogs In the Machine: Big Data, Common Core and National Testing.” It’s 57 pages every parent should read before sending their child […]
View ArticleUS Senate Looking To Open Access to Student Data – Call To Action
UPDATE: We have just heard that the Senate staff won in the negotiations, and successfully got protections against unlimited personal student data-mining into the ESRA bill. We will keep watching […]
View ArticleToo Many Tests in First Grade
We have heard in general terms about the increased amount of standardized testing that is being given in schools. United Opt Out heard from teachers about the amount of […]
View ArticlePearson’s Edict on How Students MUST Use Social Media. Warning: Your Student...
One of the trending hashtags/topics last night on twitter was #Pearson. A journalist broke the story of Pearson contacting a school district to track down a student who tweeted […]
View ArticleThe Business of Badging and Predicting Children’s Futures
Dear schools and parents, forget grades, we’ll soon have corporate sponsors and badges to label your kids, help predict their workforce or college future. Take a look at the […]
View ArticleOpen letter to US Dept Ed and FERPA: “parents getting in the way”
I contacted the U.S. Department of Education Privacy Technical Assistance Center, PTAC 9 days ago with a fairly simple question about what student-level information (pii data) their Department...
View ArticleHidden computer algorithms in schools: Personalized Learning #RobotTeaching
Your internet searches say a lot about you (or your children) and it might not be all good, or even accurate. The information collected by hidden algorithms is not limited to […]
View ArticleBreaking laws or breaking children? A list of data and the laws.
Are secret algorithms and mandated data collection violating basic human rights and existing law? A list of each: data and law. The data: Secret data collecting and predictive algorithms happening to...
View ArticleBeware the Gates-Dell funded “achievable” TLE seal of data privacy approval
Did you wake up feeling relieved this morning? Your child’s data will be in the trusted hands of Microsoft and Dell and others in the edtech world, and you […]
View ArticleNaviance not so transparent- and cooking up data starting in kindergarten?
What to do when a vendor wants to know EVERYTHING about your child but won’t tell you what they are doing with the data? WHO DOES NAVIANCE SHARE DATA […]
View ArticleThis week in data: spying, lying and being human.
NO this isn’t everything that happened in data, not even close. When you start paying attention, you see that data breaches are happening daily, internet outages, cables cut, privacy bills […]
View ArticleSchools, Privacy, and Chromebooks. That ship has sailed.
A recent report out of NEPC, in Boulder, Colorado, entitled, “Learning to be Watched: Surveillance Culture at School“ correctly leads off by stating, “Schools now routinely direct children online to...
View ArticleThey know what you did last year and they recorded it. Here’s how to delete.
Depending on your settings, Google has your voice recorded, your searches recorded, HAS YOUR LOCATION, your whereabouts over the past year recorded and mapped. Yes, this is real. Follow the […]
View ArticleWhy Pokémon is not a “Go” and how is Google involved?
You must have heard all the hub-bub about the new Augmented Reality version of Pokémon that was released last week: Pokémon Go. Niantic owns Pokémon Go. Niantic was a Google owned […]
View ArticleEdtech and your kids-National Webinar -Archived here.
Who is gathering data, watching your children when they are online at school or home? Tech companies and apps used in classrooms and on devices can collect every keystroke a child makes, every […]
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