NY Principal Raises Alarm about Infringement of Children’s Rights by inBloom
If you are my age and clearly remember 1971, you’ll likely have watched the fascinating video posted on the NY Times website this morning—the story of the burglars who stole—and shared with the press—data from an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. These were the documents that showed how the FBI was spying on anti-war protestors, exposed “Cointelpro,” and helped us all better understand the paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover.
Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post has recently shared a startling article about another kind of data collection with a warm and fuzzy name: inBloom. The potential spying seems less sinister because it’s about children after all, and it is data that, we’re told, will improve their education.
I have to admit that I haven’t paid enough attention to the privacy concerns around inBloom, because there appear to me to be more immediate problems such as widespread closure of public schools across America’s big cities and lack of funding resulting in huge classes in the big city schools where kids need more personal attention. However, the author of this
