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English School Data Available to Private Firms

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the Privatise-U dept.

lhsi writes:

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 c0lo on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:48PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:48PM (#37645) Journal

    powers that be who can use that information more easily.

    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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