“Private-sector data mining has galloped forward — perhaps nowhere faster than in education” and, as Politico notes, there are “gaping holes in the protection of children’s privacy.” “The amount of data being collected is staggering… as many as 10 million unique data points on each child, each day. That’s more data, by several orders of magnitude, than Netflix or Facebook or even Google collect on their users… Students shed streams of data about their academic progress, work habits, learning styles and personal interests as they navigate educational websites. All that data has potential commercial value: It could be used to target ads to the kids and their families, or to build profiles on them that might be of interest to employers, military recruiters or college admissions officers.” These are the reasons why CCFC has made protecting student data one of new top priorities.
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 19:43:06 +0000
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