Parents outraged over NYC schools data sharing program
Student info already out there in cyberspace
Parents called the Department of Education’s move to share confidential data about their kids with private corporations “outrageous,” “contemptible,” and worse at a high-drama town hall at Brooklyn Borough Hall Monday night.
The outrage level only got higher after families learned that the city had already handed their children’s personal information over to inBloom Inc., a Gates-funded corporation, which plans to share students’ information with for-profit vendors to help them market “learning products.”
“Our children have a right to privacy,” declared Monique Lindsay, a Coalition for Educational Justice leader. “Only we as parents have the right to share their information with anyone. We will do whatever it takes to stop inBloom, Bloomberg, and anyone else. How dare they think they can share our children’s information with anyone?”