Has anyone been paying
attention?
Natasha Singer reports
on concerns about InBloom and student privacy. Here’s a snippet:
She
did not imagine that five months later, she would be sitting in a
special school board meeting in the district’s headquarters,
listening as a series of parents, school board members and privacy
lawyers assailed the plan to outsource student data storage to
inBloom. What troubled the naysayers [not
the most even handed language Bob] at that August session
was that the district seemed to be rushing to increase data-sharing
before weighing the risks of granting companies access to intimate
details about children. They noted that administrators had no
policies in place to govern who could see the information, how long
it would be kept or whether it would be shared with the colleges to
which students applied.
“Students
are currently subject to more forms of tracking and monitoring than
ever before,” Khaliah Barnes, a lawyer at the Electronic Privacy
Information Center in Washington who appeared via video conferencing,
told the room packed with parents. “While we understand the value
of data for promoting and evaluating personalized learning, there are
too few safeguards for the amount of data collected and transmitted
from schools to private companies.”
Read the full story on
New
York Times.
Interesting. Would we
find the Chinese military grabbing a dissident from the US as
amusing?
Capture
of bombing suspect in Libya represents rare ‘rendition’ by U.S.
military
The capture of an
alleged al-Qaeda operative outside his home by Special Operations
forces in Tripoli on Saturday and his secret removal from Libya was a
rare instance of U.S. military involvement in “rendition,” the
practice of grabbing terrorism suspects to face trial without an
extradition proceeding and long the province of the CIA or the FBI.
Another TSA failure?
(Of course they describe him as “smart.” Safer than describing
their security as “dumb.)
'Street
Smart' Boy Hops on Flight to Las Vegas Alone
A "very street
smart" nine-year-old boy managed to pass through a security
checkpoint at a Minnesota airport and hop on a flight to Las Vegas
without a boarding pass, authorities said.
The boy arrived alone
at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Thursday morning,
airport spokesman Patrick Hogan told ABC News.
He was screened by TSA
officials and then headed to an airport concourse, where he boarded
an 11:15 a.m. flight on Delta to Sin City.
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