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...

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

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

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

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 8/8

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...

Or will you resist, and start by finding out more?

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Who knows what about you? 6/8

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

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...

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

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...