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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 15h \ on: Private Equity Firm Is Buying Companies That Collect Data on America’s Children Education
“It’s hard for me to understand how PowerSchool would not be paying for the privilege” of extracting so much student data, said Alex Bowers, a professor of educational leadership at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “You don’t pay the oil company to come pump oil off your land; it’s the other way around.”
This. Unfortunately, the scammiest scams I've come across this year thus far are all "social justice" apps promising that you "get paid by the services that harvest your data", (and post-signup: "congratulations, all you need to do to start earning is send 100 USDT to <tron address> to buy a package").
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 14h
I think it is pretty scammy to be stealing student data from the time the kids start school, often at 5-years-old!! If not scammy, scummy.
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80 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 13h
Absolutely. It's big business though: we all know this company we shall not name that is currently valued at $300bln that has this as their primary business model too.
Can we still fight it? I'm fighting the tron scammers, but the big fish? Are they immune?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 13h
The only way to fight it is to not give them the data in the first place. If the schools involved suddenly lost most of their students, they would go out of business or be forced to close. People do not have to vote to bond these co-conspirators, either. I consider it a crime for them to be selling that data and according to a lot of laws, it is.
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