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Defend Digital Me is a call to action to protect learners’ rights to privacy. We are teachers and parents who campaign for safe, fair and transparent data processing in education, in England, and beyond. http://defenddigitalme.org
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Education should nurture curiosity, not feed algorithms that children are unable to consent to. It’s time to question how deeply surveillance is being built into childhood itself.

Read our article with @defenddigitalme.bsky.social 👉 privacyinternational.org/long-read/56...
From Playground to Database: child data in education
In England’s schools, children are not only pupils but also data subjects. From the moment they are born, a digital record begins to take shape — one that will follow them through nursery, primary…
privacyinternational.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Read the Lord Frost comments in context, in the Hansard record of the full House of Lords debate on July 3, 2025 (part 1)

Children’s Wellbeing and #SchoolsBill Committee Stage #CWBSBill hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0... 2/2
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : 'Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill' on Thursday 3 July 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
July 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Five years after the ICO DfE audit, only a 6-side summary has ever been published about the 139 findings defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/upl… Remedial actions are long overdue—why can the termly census affecting 700,000 pupils be done if the required fixes aren’t?defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/u...df
defenddigitalme.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
And that’s it. Choose your own adventure, the outcomes are up to you.

If you can, help us resist a dystopian future in education and fight for safe, fair, transparent data, systems and #EdTech that empower every learner to thrive.
 Enjoy the game. #HappyEaster2025

defenddigitalme.org/donate/

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April 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Or will you become the Digital Ghost? Your future erased.



"You decide you will write to your MP in parliament in secret, but for now, you are stuck until you choose to work with others to resist." 7/8



Instead, you can choose to write to them today defenddigitalme.org/my-school-re...
My Records My Rights | Defend Digital Me — Defend Digital Me
My Records My Rights (The National Pupil Database)
defenddigitalme.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Or will you resist, and start by finding out more?

Take action in the real world scenarios today, with Defend Digital Me resources and templates. 

defenddigitalme.org/resources/



Who knows what about you? 6/8
Resources — Defend Digital Me
defenddigitalme.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Will you be the good student?

"Years later, you apply for university. You realise your entire history is owned by private firms. Your thoughts, habits, relationships—all pre-analysed, predictable.

Your choices are decided by them. Your life was never yours.” 5/8
April 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You start looking into the systems. You talk to the IT teacher—one of the few adults who still seems human. The first thing you do is revoke consent to your biometric data and watch a video to find out more about use of #biometrics in schools. 4/8

Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kdW...
Ban Biometrics in Schools Animation 2022
YouTube video by defend digital me
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April 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
You are being watched, constantly. At first, it feels normal. Convenient, even. And now, you start to wonder: Who owns this data? Who controls it? What do you do?



Investigate or continue complying? 

#HappyEaster2025 at Horizon Academy 3/8
April 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Will you resist quietly—try to avoid the new systems, revolt, or be the model student? A choose-your-own adventure game.

"Then, one morning, the Data Compliance Team arrives."

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Follow the link to play 🎲 "Data Shadows: A Student's Tale". defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/u...
"Data Shadows: A Student’s Tale"
defenddigitalme.org
April 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM