Columnist David Safier of Tucson keeps close watch on the corporatization of education in Arizona.
He recently reported that the Tucson school district is outsourcing student data to a Murdoch owned site called mCLASS. This is different from the Murdoch data storage program called inBloom.
Safier is concerned about the security of student data, as we should all be. Why can’t schools respect student privacy?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Murdoch? Oh my…this is worse than I could have ever imagined.
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Rupert Murdoch and News Corps have had their hands in education for a long time now. It is worse than you imagined and has been for quite some time.
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There’s money to be made in selling personal information. What would privatization be if it overlooked this gold mine?
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Here is an article about : How Murdoch, Bill Gates, and big corporations are data- mining
Our schools.
http://www.nationofchange.org/exposed-how-murdoch-bill-gates-and-big-corporations-are-data-mining-our-schools-1367331290
ls The Washington Post had two articles about InBloom this past week.
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another article: Lawsuit charges Ed department with violating student privacy rights.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/13/lawsuit-charges-ed-department-with-violating-student-privacy-rights/
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last one:
Privacy concerns grow over gates funded student databases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/06/09/privacy-concerns-grow-over-gates-funded-student-database/
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