PUBLIC ALERT & ACTION:IT'S DATA-MINING SEASON IN BC SCHOOLS JUST SAY "NO!" TO BIG BRO SUMMARY1- January - April is the season for data-mining in BC schools. The BC Ministry of Education and Child Care lets UBC's Human Early Learning…
Category: Parental consent & informed consent
URGENT: Take action against data mining mega-project in schools
2024 February - video - Kids First - "Kick Big Brother Out of School - Sperm to Worm Data Mining in Canada" February to June is data mining season in schools across Canada. Through lengthy social science questionnaires and use…
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Government Attacks Parental Consent for Kids’ Health Care: “Mature Minors” & BC Infants Act
2021 June. Kids First - (youtube video): "BC Government Campaign Attacks Parental Consent for Kids' Health Care: "Mature Minors" & BC Infants Act" Parents' legal obligation and right to determine their children's health care is under attack across Canada. The…
KF Media Release: Indigenous teen denied addiction treatment by government agencies and police
KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADAwww.KidsFirstCanada.org 604-291-0088 info@KidsFirstCanada.org Media release - 440 words Indigenous teen denied addiction treatment by government agencies and police Burnaby, BC - February 11, 2021 - A mother is pleading with BC government agencies and police…
2021 February – Video interview of BC mother battling government agencies and police who refuse to allow her to access health care for her minor son who is at extreme risk due to drug addiction.
Feb 10, 2021. Mother and H. Ward. Youtube - (web video): "Interview with mother battling BC government agencies to get medical treatment for addicted teen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uflab8O9RGQ&feature=youtu.be Kids First President Helen Ward has been assisting the family and personally witnessed the…
“MATURE MINOR” CONSENT laws and BC Infants Act: HELP FOR PARENTS
November 24, 2020Read and adapt this redacted letter to "health care providers" who allow minors to consent to or refuse health care without parental consent. Health care providers (in the BC Infants Act) includes anyone providing any therapy or preventative…
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June 2013 – Violating parental consent with "passive consent": kids used as junk science research subjects by UBC's HELP
The following letter, article, and editorial appeared in the Boundary Creek Times: June 13 letter: Questions of value and consent raisedPassive consent unacceptableJune 13 editorial opposing passive consent In June, UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) declined to provide a…
Population Data BC
Population Data BC provides some information on BC's data mining mega-project "designed to capture the power of linkable, longitudinal data, and avoid the inefficiencies associated with project-by-project data linkage." Perhaps the "inefficiencies" they refer to are things like informed consent.…
Complaint about HELP’s violation of informed consent and privacy to UBC Behavioural Research Ethics
Complaint about HELP’s violation of informed consent and privacy to UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board—Jan 2011. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - official complaint: (download PDF here)Feb 15 2011 reply from UBC’s Behavioural Research Ethics Board to complaint regarding…
“Researchers” can access your child’s private medical records without child’s consent
“Researchers” can access your child’s private medical records without child’s consent, but in Ontario parents cannot. See College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario policy #5-05 (broken link)
Fraser Health vaccinating without parental consent (broken link)
Fraser Health vaccinating without parental consent. Mother upset over vaccination process. A Burnaby mom is upset her 13-year-old daughter was vaccinated for human papilloma virus without her parental consent. (broken link)
Feb 2011, Burnaby Now article. ‘Passive consent’ triggers complaint: Burnaby parent says survey is ‘unethical’ (broken link)
Feb 2011, Burnaby Now article. ‘Passive consent’ triggers complaint: Burnaby parent says survey is ‘unethical’ (broken link) Feb 2011 responses to the article from a UBC researcher (broken link) and from a citizen (broken link)
HELP’s “linked databases” (broken link)
HELP’s “linked databases” (broken link)—note HELP Director, Hertzman, is also on Board of Population Data BC
Who put HELP in charge of BC’s private data? Why trust HELP? (broken link)
Who put help in charge of BC’s private data? Why trust HELP when they avoid informed consent to mine our private data? HELP’s PRIVACY POLICY—staff sign an “oath of confidentiality” = not reassuring (scroll down to Organizational Structure at this…
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Feb 1, 2011 interview on Roadkill radio on violation of privacy and parental consent
Feb 1, 2011 interview on Roadkill radio on violation of privacy and parental consent, UBC’s HELP, the EDI and data linkage