UBC’s Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Privacy Violation & Data Mining in BC

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 8, 2011June 9, 2020in Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Documents from HELP showing government complicity in privacy violation and lack of informed parental consent for HELP’s massive data mining project February is “EDI” Month in BC Kindergartens Requirement for Informed Parental Consent Violated by Schools, HELP and BC GovernmentLetters…

HELP info for parents (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 5, 2011June 9, 2020in Parental consent & informed consent, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

HELP info for parents (broken link): HELP provides different information for different people – researchers get far more information

HELP Violates Privacy Protection Practices it Claims to Follow

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 1, 2011June 9, 2020in Government Submissions, Parental consent & informed consent, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

HELP Violates Privacy Protection Practices it Claims to Follow: HELP claims to follow Statistics Canada’s procedures, but unlike HELP, Statistics Canada requires verbal or written parental consent for surveys of parents, children, and children’s teachers. See PDF below of Jan…

Federal $ for daycare lobby propaganda (eg from HELP) and data-mining (eg the EDI) through HRSDC’s Understanding the Early Years (UEY) (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 1, 2011June 9, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) is using federal $ (broken link) to pay and organize "community coalitions" to do "many tasks ranging from facilitating data collection activities; developing community interest and buy-in; strengthening community partnerships and transferring knowledge…

Burnaby Now article: Does data collection put privacy at risk? (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 25, 2010June 12, 2020in Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Burnaby Now article: Does data collection put privacy at risk? (broken link) HELP is the government-funded organization that drives/creates child/family/daycare policy here AND does the mega-dating mining. Family’s addresses are not there but postal codes are and so is everything…

Biased Consultation

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 25, 2010May 26, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

All five "Experts in the Field of Early Childhood Education" listed by the BC Government for the consultation are from HELP (Human Early Learning Partnership), including Hillel Goelman, HELP Director and author of the 2007 Vancouver Sun article describing and…

More organizations & academics misrepresenting Dr Heckman on the economic benefits of daycare, all day kindergarten, preschool (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 25, 2010June 2, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Council on Early Child Development (founded by F Mustard, HELP’s C Hertzman President)World BankOECDFraser Mustard (broken link), Chair in Childhood Development at Alberta Children’s HospitalMisleading out of context quote (broken link):“Early childhood investments of high quality have lasting effects…. We…

January 28, 2010 Press Release: Moratorium Sought for All-Day Kindergarten & Related Data-Mining

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 28, 2010June 9, 2020in Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

January 28, 2010. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - press release: "Moratorium Sought for All-Day Kindergarten & Related Data-Mining"

HELP produced propaganda video promoting the HELP’s EDI activities

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 13, 2010June 9, 2020in Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Jan 13, 2010. HELP. Youtube - video (web): HELP produced propaganda videos promoting the HELP’s EDI activities

Kindergarten Parents: did you get your consent letters from HELP about data-mining your family’s private records? (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 20, 2009June 9, 2020in Parental consent & informed consent, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Kindergarten Parents: did you get your consent letters from HELP about data-mining your family’s private records? Read the letters: “negative opt-out” and lack of information means your rights to PRIVACY and INFORMED CONSENT are violated by the BC government through…