◼ Gates Foundation Launches Giant Database on School Children 'inBloom' - Trey Sanchez/Truth Revolt
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $100 million to fund a giant database to collect private information of American school children starting in early education and extending all the way through high school.
Promoted as a technological tool to help teachers tailor education to the individual needs of students, inBloom is a database that stores student's scores, attendance, special needs, disabilities, etc. The intent is to exploit the technology that is available today to replace antiquated paper records.
Launched in February of 2013, inBloom is working with nine states representing over 11 million students. The nonprofit organization was launched to help educators keep up with the ever changing standards of state Common Core education.
...Security concerns have been addressed in the FAQ section of the website. However, many parents are still concerned that very personal data of their children could be vulnerable or fall into the wrong hands. Over privacy concerns, MoveOn.org began a petition to stop the New York State Education Department from collecting this information without parental consent. So far, over 4,000 signatures have been attained. And in at least one school district of New York, a delay was issued in schools releasing student information to the inBloom database.
◼ White House co-hosts MIT workshop as part of project on ‘collecting, analyzing, and using’ big data - Patrick Howley/Daily Caller
It comes as little surprise that the White House is analyzing “big data” collection considering the effectiveness of the 2012 Obama campaign’s personality-tracking voter targeting database created through its “Project Dreamcatcher.” The information from that database is now held by Obama’s nonprofit advocacy group Organizing for Action.
White House counselor John Podesta, a left-wing operative who founded the Center for American Progress, and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker will represent the Obama administration at the March 3 workshop, “Big Data and Privacy: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice” with MIT president L. Rafael Reif.... Even though they got the word “privacy” in there, the White House project makes clear that it is focused on “collecting, analyzing, and using” data for policy purposes.
◼ Obama Admin Seeking Access to ‘Full Twitter Historical Data’ - Bryan Preston/PJMedia
Whether you like it or not, the Department of Health and Human Services wants to follow you on Twitter. The Obama/Sebelius Department of Health and Human services wants to, as Kruiser said the other day in another context, to fatten up Big Brother.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking a “social media analytic tool” that will give the government access to “full Twitter historical data,” according to asolicitation released on Tuesday....
This government has been collecting our cell phone metadata and lied about it, under oath.
It wanted to track our license plates.
It wants our twitter data.
Big Brother’s appetite seems to know no end.
