2023 May - video - Courthouse Libraries BC - lawyers Sarah Runyon & Paul LeBlanc, "Using the Charter in Child, Family and Community Services Act Cases for Parents' Counsel"Parent-child rights are routinely ignored in child protection actions including in the…
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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…
Without consent, UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) data mines kids and families through 'surveys' done at schools from kindergarten to high school, and UBC's Population Data BC stores & sells the private data of all BC residents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3FOh_VNeno&list=UULFhGC_IDzVUt8rfiIFPFHkNA&index=27 Full…
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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FAMILY VS STATE: Scottish families defeat Orwellian state intervention mega-project. September 19, 2019. BBC - article: "Named person scheme scrapped by Scottish government"
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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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…
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.…
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…
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 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 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…
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, 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 responses to the article from a UBC researcher (broken link) and from a citizen (broken link)
