Posted on 04/13/2018 9:15:04 AM PDT by davikkm
Republicans may be congratulating each other over their show of outrage at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s data snatches and repression of free speech during Senate and House hearings, but a leading conservative commentator says they missed the boat in failing to address the tech giant’s intrusive grabs into the private data of America’s schoolchildren. Michelle Malkin – host of Michelle Malkin Investigates on CRTV.com – writes at Creators.com about the cozy relationship between Facebook and other technology titans with the U.S. Education Department. Using comforting-sounding buzz phrases such as “personalized,” “individualized,” and “social and emotional” learning, the federal education behemoth has joined with the tech corporations who are “cashing in on the Big Data boondoggle,” Malkin says.
She continues:
Facebook is just one of the tech giants partnering with the U.S. Department of Education and schools nationwide in pursuit of student data for meddling and profit. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Pearson, Knewton, and many more are cashing in on the Big Data boondoggle. State and federal educational databases provide countless opportunities for private companies exploiting public schoolchildren subjected to annual assessments, which exploded after adoption of the tech-industry-supported Common Core “standards,” tests, and aligned texts and curricula.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Right on!
They know what they’re doing and don’t let up for a second.
OBAMA VISITS SILICON VALLEY -— tech bigwigs suck-up to Obama
F/B users about to be screwed. The genesis of Obama’s Stasi-like Democrat data base -— and student data-mining-—round one. Let’s stroll down memory lane.
(hat tip edzo4)
ITEM-—Circa 3/13/17 Zuckerberg referred to a dinner he and other Silicon Valley leaders had about a month ago.
ITEM-—Here’s the news article edzo4 dug up
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/03/13/former-president-obama-visits-with-tech-leaders-in-silicon-valley/
ITEM-—it was not revealed who Obama met with during his visit to San Jose; as a private citizen, Obama is not obligated to say.
ITEM-—Edzo4 found this photo of the dinner from the Mercury News
https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/20110218_094437_obama_tech.jpg?w=700
ITEM-—And edzo4 found this blog that names the attendees.
https://kellblog.com/2011/02/19/seating-chart-for-president-obamas-silicon-valley-tech-titans-dinner/
ATTENDEES: Obama, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Reed Hastings.
yeah, i believe this report because federal education and control is one of the three sacraments of leftists everywhere (including apparently Sec. DeVos). stopping this should be the highest priority, Mr. President. I can’t think of one thing DeVos has done to advance home schooling, private schools or local control of public education.
imo, I think you need to light a fire under her Mr. President or get someone else! *voluntary* vouchers or tax credits should be issued with no federal standards other than verification of school age children and education use. or failing that, direct funding of public K-12 education needs to be stopped. leave administration to local gov’ts.
Glad to hear that. I wish we’d hear more from her & Dr Carson.
Bread meet butter! The GOPe/Uni-Party/DemocRATS are all the same.
I agree. I’ve heard bits and pieces from both of them but, as we know, the media won’t cover good things. I saw what little I did see on Fox.
Jeb Bush received some $10 million in bribes from British Pearson book publisher. He supports common core as he receives lots of bribe money. Pearson supports this as new books need to be published. Pearson fired 3,000 people last year saving $300 million to get you an idea how big they are. They have 32,000 employees.
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