Have you ever wondered who is mining your data?
This post aggregates the biggest data mining corporations.
Try this:
You will note that only one of them is defunct, dead, gone: inBloom, killed by parent activists Leonie Haimson of New York and Rachel Stickland of Colorado and others who banded together to kick inBloom out of their schools.
Meanwhile, look at the many corporations that are monitoring everything you do online, every purchase, every comment.
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Ghostery prevents this for personal data mining. It won’t help your students’ data though. That will require legislation or litigation.
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Bill Gates raised an army of cyber chickens to take the web page down with a thousand cyber pecks. He could do that. He would do that.
I was told that the address in the link could not be reached. Is there an error you are aware of?
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I replaced it
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Is anything as bad as facebook?
Apparently, data miners themselves are, Joe, as many of us aren’t even ‘allowed’ to receive any negative articles on privacy invasion like this.
No.
Joe, Try your Institute of Education Sciences, begin on page 16. I new that this model was in development back in the 1990s before big data computing. This data mining tool is at the center of many recent efforts to pin down responsibility for student outcomes.
Click to access nds-model-presentation-v4.pdf
inBloom was remarkable because it was so up front about its goals and purpose — and it almost squeaked through.
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So much for Constitutional guarantees of liberty. The government AND these corporations know all about us. Go on line to look for something to purchase and see how many e mails you get to have you buy that or something similar.
We have become slaves to our slaves, the internet et al.
Unfortunately, the Constitution doesn’t have much to say about data mining. The internet is obliterating most distinctions between public and private activity.
Are not data possessions? There’s gotta be something in there about seizure of property.