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Wired reports on the opening to third parties of England's national-pupil-database:
Data relating to every school pupil in England is now available for use by private companies thanks to a change in legislation implemented last year. The move is part of a wider government initiative to "marketise" data, which includes initiatives such as the much-criticised Care.data and the selling off of taxpayer data by HMRC.
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(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:35PM
There's no stopping the fact that information wants to be free. The only mistake people make is thinking that assertion is one in favor of online anarchists, and not the powers that be who can use that information more easily.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:48PM
You give them too much credit, me thinks: 'cause all I'm seeing now is a sale of this data.
I mean, after "using" all this data for years, can you point to some result of this "use"?
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