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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 30 2014, @07:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 30 2014, @07:19AM (#37998)

    this marketing attitude will go nicely with their new DNA database.