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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: 1) by GoonDu on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:56PM

    by GoonDu (2623) on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:56PM (#37649)

    Forgive me for the inappropriate title. Frankly, as long as there's no identifiable information that can identify the student and the data is free not only to private company but to the public, I'm find with it but the article did state that those information is pretty damn raw.

    Sure, school information is not as revealing as health data and the probability of companies maliciously exploiting these dataset is small but one can't help it but to feel uncomfortable about it. What if someone within the company decided to sell it to some malicious party?