FAMILY VS STATE: Scottish families defeat Orwellian state intervention mega-project. September 19, 2019. BBC - article: "Named person scheme scrapped by Scottish government"
Category: Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC
Parents warned: privacy rights violated in school data collection by UBC
January 29, 2019 - Burnaby - A national parents' group is warning families to avoid allowing schools to put their children in UBC's Big Brother style data collection projects.Kids First Parent Association of Canada warns that in late January and…
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Should We Trust Google Apps?
January 2019 - GOOGLE APPS FOR KIDS are accused of: Illegal data collection.Manipulating children into in-app purchases.Ads for gambling and alcohol.Modeling harmful behavior like cleaning your eyes with sharp objects Sign the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood petitionTell Google: Adopt…
Iowa student refuses to be weighed by school
Nov 2014, Iowa student refuses to be weighed by school In BC we have the "Daily Physical Activity" DPA reporting requirement which has schools requiring students to report and electronically record at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day.…
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…
Data Mining Canadian Kids (Broken Link)
A document authored by Dr Clyde Hertzman of HELP, Canada's leading guru pushing privacy-violating data mining and institutional child care, outlines "5 Year Plan". Here is the 2009 document prepared by the Monitoring Committee of the Early Childhood Learning Knowledge…
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…
Computerized student data system in BC—BCeSIS (broke link)
Wikipedia - article (web): Computerized student data system in BC—BCeSIS BCeSIS home (broken link)
“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)
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
Feb 2011—Burnaby Now letters—“Privacy Concerns Alarming” (broken link)
Feb 2011—Burnaby Now letters—“Privacy Concerns Alarming” (broken link) no consent at all for data collection & linkage on all BC residents
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