Last month the University of Missouri REQUIRED student athletes to install an app, SpotterEDU, on their devices to track their attendance in class. The justification was that the university was […]
Before the roll-out of Common Core, 10 organizations got together in 2005 and created a “nonprofit” whose mission was about collecting and standardizing children’s data. That organization, The Data Quality […]
The Federal Trade Commission is considering several changes to this law that protects children’s online information. The FTC is accepting comments from the public, deadline December 9, 2019. Let them […]
The Federal Trade Commission is considering several changes to this law that protects children’s online information. The FTC is accepting comments from the public, deadline December 9, 2019. Let them […]
Former Congressman Paul Ryan who sponsored the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, HR18-4174, is now investing in an evidence-based policy business. According to today’s Journal Sentinel piece, Ryan […]
With the passage of the OPEN Government Data Act in January 2019, data interoperability of federal governmental agencies to/from each other can occur. This was seen as good bipartisan legislation […]
With mounting concerns about school safety, screen addiction and screentime and known health and brain effects, increase in internet crimes, along with hyper focused national attention on data misuse, […]
You may recall when teacher Peter Greene asked a brilliant question years ago, “Are Common Core Standards Actually Data Tags?” Greene said, “We’ve been saying that CCSS are limited because […]
The U.S. government has some big ideas on big data. The U.S. Federal Data Strategy– calling for feedback. According to this public notice, the Bipartisan Policy Center is hosting a […]
Congress is holding a series of hearings to discuss the possibility of drafting a new federal privacy law. If you didn’t catch the first two Senate Hearings, you can watch […]
— graphic: EU ministers make push for Google, Facebook tax An article written by Nicholas Confessore in the New York Times Magazine entitled The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley […]
If you or your child have a Google account through school, you are going to want to read this. While many have questioned Google’s invasion of the classroom and how […]
EdWeek recently wrote about a study that found Android educational apps from the Google Play Store (remember Google built Android, Google Analytics) are improperly sharing children’s data with third parties. […]