“Your child’s data is stored in the cloud”

Your child’s data is stored in the cloud is a new article at CNN about the inBloom data collection system.

I’ve previously posted about it at “Irate Parents Fight to Keep Information on Their Kids Private.”

Here’s an excerpt from CNN’s article:

Streichenberger says inBloom is providing the “plumbing” to fix school districts’ currently disjointed systems. School districts control the data, though they may share that information with third-parties if they choose.

That promise has offered little comfort to many parents in school districts that use inBloom. Some parents in those districts feel that there’s not enough transparency around the data platform, what data will be stored, and who will have access to it. InBloom says it’s up to the states to determine what data is stored and whether parents have access.

Sprowal says parents were not adequately notified before her son’s school district started loading data on to the platform.

“I think if there was full disclosure, transparency, if they included us in the process, as they were developing it … it would have been fine,” she said. “It would have … put some constraints on it.”

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