Bill Gates' $100 million database to track students

World Net Daily ^ | 3/28/13 | Michael F. Haverluck

[Mozilla]

Over the past 18 months, a massive $100 million public-school database spearheaded by the $36.4 billion-strong Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been in the making that freely shares student information with private companies.

The system has been in operation for several months and already contains millions of K-12 students’ personal identification ‒ ranging from name, address, Social Security number, attendance, test scores, homework completion, career goals, learning disabilities, and even hobbies and attitudes about school.

Claiming that the national database will enhance education, the main funder of the project, the Gates Foundation, entered the joint venture with the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from a number of states. After Rupert Murdoch’s Amplify Education (a division of News Corp) spent more than a year developing the system’s infrastructure, the Gates Foundation delivered it to inBloom ‒ a nonprofit corporation recently established to run the database.

School officials and private companies doing business with districts might have plenty to be happy about with this information-sharing system, but ParentalRights.org President Michael P. Farris says parents have plenty to worry about when it comes to inBloom’s national database.

“The greatest immediate threat to children is the threat to their privacy,” Farris told WND in an exclusive interview. “The Supreme Court has recognized a sphere of privacy within the family, but this project would take personal information about each child, apart from any considerations of parental consent, and put it into a database being managed and monitored solely by the government agencies and private corporations that use it.”

And with globalists like Bill Gates (the world’s second richest man with a net worth of $61 billion) and big government joining hands in the project, could children’s information be abused for ulterior motives?

[RetiredArmy]

Gates and his homo buddies at Microsoftie are going to have a special room set aside for them in hell. His pal at Starbucks will be right next door.

[Iron Munro]

Too much of US time, energy and fortune is spent trying to manipulate data electronically rather than in creating anything tangible or actually providing anything of real substance.

It is the modern era’s electronic equivalent of Nero’s fiddle.

If we don’t change course soon, our legacy will be the most intensly detailed and documented record of a great nation’s collapse in the history of the world.

[what's up]

I agree. this reminds me of Al GOre and his computer models for global warming.

Instead of interacting with real people and the real environment people are thinking computers have all the answers. No, computers are just a tool...they do not have the answers in themselves.

[GeronL]

this shouldn’t even be legal

[metmom]

ping

[ridesthemiles]

this shouldn’t even be legal””””

Under the 4th Amendment, it certainly is NOT.

[JenB]

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