By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:56:18 +0000

You make this sounds so positive. Sounds like you are bought and paid for by the marketplace. Parents had not been informed that this had been in the works for quite some time and it is surely an invasion of privacy by corporate world. I believe that the corporations backed by legal and advertising departments place a positive spin on this but
all the corporation’s disclaimers appear to relieve themselves of responsibility and lawsuits
if their systems get hacked into. I do not appreciate that I had not been notified by the
people who are going to make great profits from our children’s and family information.
It is apparent that the Gates Foundation has done some good but I can speculate they
set the American family up by donating money with the intension that in the end make that sum of money back ten fold. I am sure Mr. Gates and his children have the best security money can buy but we do not have this opportunity because we do not have close to the money that Mr. Gates has.

By: leoniehaimson

leoniehaimson — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:37:45 +0000

Read about the growing coalition of education, parent & privacy groups protesting this plan to share confidential student information, without parental consent, with the Gates-funded inBloom Inc., which plans to put it on a highly vulnerable data cloud http://shar.es/Yf9F4 And contrary to what this journalist writes, there is no research showing any of this has pedagogic value. What it does have is commercial potential, for companies to try to make a buck off the personally identifiable, highly sensitive educational records of children.

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