Update on our lawsuit vs. NYSED uploading any MORE personal student data to inBloom, and yet more evidence of the blatant disregard the state has for our children's privacy
On January 3 in Albany, the NY State Supreme court will hear arguments concerning our lawsuit asking for an immediate injunction to block Commissioner King and the Regents from uploading any more student personal data to the inBloom cloud. The original date of December 6 was postponed because our attorneys amended the brief, pointing out even more ways in which the NY State Education Department has violated the state's Personal Privacy Protection Law. The amended petition is here. Thesupplemental memo of law is here. (You can also check out the original Article 78 petition and the memo of law.)
Because of this, the state asked for more time to reply, and will serve its opposition papers on December 18. Our attorneys have until noon on December 30 to file reply papers. Our attorneys tried to get a later date for reply in view of the intervening holidays, but SED would not agree to put off uploading student names beyond January 15th.
Sadly, we now have more evidence that much personal student data has already been uploaded to the inBloom cloud: first, last December, to help with inBloom’s “infrastructure development”, according to the state, and again in July, for the data dashboard “road shows.”
Why the state couldn’t use dummy data to help inBloom (or really Wireless Generation/NewsCorp) develop its system or to