Parents' Privacy Concerns Kill 'Personalized Learning' Initiative

[Fingolfin]

There is still some sanity in the world!

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/0...oncerns-kill-personalized-learning-initiative

"You may recall that inBloom is a data initiative that sought to personalize learning. GeekWire's Tricia Duryee now reports that inBloom, which was backed by $100 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, is closing up shop after parents worried that its database technology was violating their children's privacy"
"....the inBloom database tracked 400 different data fields about students — including family relationships ('foster parent' or 'father's significant other') and reasons for enrollment changes ('withdrawn due to illness' or 'leaving school as a victim of a serious violent incident') — that parents objected to, prompting some schools to recoil from the venture."

------

also, check nearby lamps before a private conversation:
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/coversnitch-eavesdropping-lightbulb/

 

[Jab]

There is still some sanity in the world!

http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/0...oncerns-kill-personalized-learning-initiative

"You may recall that inBloom is a data initiative that sought to personalize learning. GeekWire's Tricia Duryee now reports that inBloom, which was backed by $100 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, is closing up shop after parents worried that its database technology was violating their children's privacy"
"....the inBloom database tracked 400 different data fields about students — including family relationships ('foster parent' or 'father's significant other') and reasons for enrollment changes ('withdrawn due to illness' or 'leaving school as a victim of a serious violent incident') — that parents objected to, prompting some schools to recoil from the venture."

------

also, check nearby lamps before a private conversation:
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/coversnitch-eavesdropping-lightbulb/

More ignorant under-educated children, well done parents. :erm:

 

[Fingolfin]

More ignorant under-educated children, well done parents. :erm:

That's ridiculous - children don't automatically become ignorant and under-educated when all-of-a-sudden big corporations stop spying on them.

It is possible to educate people without turning them into fodder for analytic engines.