Warning to Chicago about threat to student privacy
From NYC’s Leonie Haimson:Dear Karen Lewis and other Chicago friends and allies (among the SOS folks):
Thank you for fighting so valiantly to preserve public education in Chicago. We are all with you in spirit.
I wanted to alert you to yet another real threat to your schools.
Yesterday, Stephanie Simon of Reuters revealed that at least four states have pulled out of the data mining Gates-funded operation called inBloom Inc., because of privacy concerns and protests from parents, and several others are reconsidering. Only three states remain currently involved, NY, CO and IL.
Yet she also revealed that Illinois plans to expand inBloom data sharing and data mining to 35 districts serving
