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8. Good Stuff and Links...Thanks..well worth the read. It's here in US in some places
Sat Jan 11, 2014, 10:28 PM
Jan 2014

an other countries..much more is coming... And from what I've read in lastest from GB...apparently "Private Contractors" are in control of the DATA on the kids...and NOT the Schools who were supposed to be just using algorythms...but that the data goes to THIRD PARTIES.

A Catholic School in Britain just had a big to do...from Parents finding out they were sending their kids data to the "Private Contractors."

I've been in and out today and lost the link to the Catholic post...but, think it's in the links I posted below.

Would we here in USA or UKA or EUROZONE want "Booze-Allan" and other Private Contractors have that kind of access our Childrens Data where we had no control. Parents thought it was just innocent about using thumbprints so underprivileged kids could get free lunches and not be discrimitated against (so all school lunch program kids had to give thumbprints.) Then Parents thought it a good thing that their kids could check out library books on "tumprint" recognition so that "lost library cards" were a thing of the past.

Yet there are other ways for both Lunch Programs and Library Access to work with "Pin Numbers" (kids could remember) and a "universal plastic card" which kids might need to learn to monitor as a life lesson in not losing but would keep their info private to school and not "Private Outsiders."

I have no idea if these alternatives could work...but, even though my child is grown, I would never have wanted her to give away her private info that way...and certainly NOT to have the School TAKE it without my permission.

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