
“The $100 million repository that will catalog all the information is called inBloom, an initiative funded primarily through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. The Department of Education is in the finishing stages of building a system to share student data with colleges and six other state agencies—a program known as ‘P-20.’ Some of the other agencies that may have access to the data by 2015 include the Department of Labor, Health and Taxation and Finance, and the offices of Technology and Children and Family Services. In addition to money from the Gates Foundation, the DOE has received $40 million from state and federal agencies.”
Related posts:
Aide To Mentally Handicapped Man Murdered By Police Speaks Out
NYPD Comissioner Ray Kelly: Police to use Tera-Hertz scanners within six months
Vida Cannabis: Up, Up and Away for A Perfectly Positioned Company
We need your help to keep working for European digital rights
George Clooney Arrives at the Bank of England
Christian school defies Arkansas attorney general, arms teachers & posts sign
Chinese State-Owned Telecom Accepts Bitcoin
My Parents Were Put In Internment Camps—Don’t Bring Them Back
Glenn Greenwald: Domestic drones and their unique dangers
New Hampshire police Taser Chinese woman who tried to buy too many iPhones
Investigative journalist Ben Swann weighs in on push to Syria war
Snowden Issues Statement Condemning Actions of Both Obama and Biden
Cops with Drones: Alameda Co., CA Weighs Technology vs. Privacy
Hollywood Gets Tax Break Extension, While Payroll Extension Break Ended
Three Telling Stories, One Disruptive Company