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inBloom https://www.dailykos.com/news/inBloom News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 07:43:28 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 07:43:28 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) The Paradox of Privacy in Education and the Nation https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/6/10/1215121/-The-Paradox-of-Privacy-in-Education-and-the-Nation <h1 style="">The Paradox of Privacy in Education and the Nation</h1> Â© copyright 2013 Betsy L. Angert <a target="new" href="http://empathyeducates.org">EmpathyEducates</a> and <a target="new" href="http://bethink.org">BeThink.</a> <img style="/*border:7px solid #ffffff*/" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2825/9007996377_9f9df2458d_n.jpg" width="290" align="left" />Currently, in this country the right to privacy is the subject of myriad conversations..  Since reports from the <a target="new" href="http://gu.com/p/3gd58/tw">Guardian</a> and <a target="new" href="http://wapo.st/1888aNq">The Washington Post</a> revealed that every American is being followed people have pondered a broader question. What is the price of freedom and how do we define the term. Are we free to chat when our telephone records are being kept?  Can we surf the web without worry knowing that every keyboard stroke is being recorded?  For most of our lives, citizens believed what we learned in school.  <a target="new" href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fourth_amendment">The Fourth Amendment</a> protects us.  As Americans, we have a right to privacy without search or seizure, or do we?  In recent months, school districts nationwide have loosened the restrictions on student privacy bolstered by the benevolence of Philanthropists such as <a target="new" href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org"></a>Bill and Melinda Gates.  A comprehensive student database <a target="new" href="http://reut.rs/WoTdRR">built to chart</a> the academic paths of public school students from kindergarten through high school shapes and defines our youth. Does Johnny struggle with fractions or is he challenged by the ways in which his Math lessons are delivered? The database will record a programmed interpretation of Johnnyâ€™s experience â€“ "and may also record that young John finds textbooks boring, he adores animation and plays baseball after school." Will the software speak with Johnny? Will it ask him how he feels, and say to him, what is going on at home? Highly unlikely just as it is improbable that the Federal Judge who reviews surveillance records understands that the searches we do are scholarly in nature or that as persons living in a diverse community we have friends born in foreign lands? Will the Barrister think to speak with us, trust us, or will he/she presume that we are guilty as charged? Johnny, his parents and teacher might know this answer, for children are, in certain states, already under surveillance.   rss@dailykos.com (Bcgntn) 4thAmendment BillandMelindaGates Data Education FISA Fourth Amendment FSA inBloom newschools Privacy StudentDatabase _1215121 Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:57:05 +0000