Jen Persson @TheABB
@jenpersson.com
Defend Digital Me | Consultant to AI & Ed working group Council of Europe | part-time MSc Global Public Policy | human rights and digital in education | privacy and data laws | public sector and EdTech | #UNCRC | #research | bees & baking
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I keep saying that when the first deep fake is made of a child and the image comes from a school site,,, we might see change
April 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I keep saying that when the first deep fake is made of a child and the image comes from a school site,,, we might see change
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🎉 Big #WIN for student privacy! 🔒 Austria’s DPA has issued a decision finding that #Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks pupils and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.
📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-...
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Part 1: The Trouble with the (UK) #DataBill and Children’s Data
A growing expectation to treat children’s data differently from adults’ brings with it new challenges in #DataProtection law.
Among other things.
jenpersson.com/the-trouble-...
A growing expectation to treat children’s data differently from adults’ brings with it new challenges in #DataProtection law.
Among other things.
jenpersson.com/the-trouble-...
The Trouble with the Data Bill and Children’s Data
Part 1: The Trouble with the Data Bill and Children’s Data Will the Data Use and Access Bill fall at the final hurdle? The popular consensus on ping-pong is no, but the government’s int…
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June 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Part 1: The Trouble with the (UK) #DataBill and Children’s Data
A growing expectation to treat children’s data differently from adults’ brings with it new challenges in #DataProtection law.
Among other things.
jenpersson.com/the-trouble-...
A growing expectation to treat children’s data differently from adults’ brings with it new challenges in #DataProtection law.
Among other things.
jenpersson.com/the-trouble-...
Looking forward to contributing and participating in this tomorrow, #CILIPData25 in a talk on "Children as (copy)rights holders: canaries in the coalmine?" and panel with really interesting questions to challenge us in the afternoon.
⏰It’s tomorrow! The CILIP Data Protection Conference brings together thought leaders to unpack AI, copyright, DPIAs & more. Featuring speakers from The Alan Turing Institute, DVSA, Digital Notts and more.
Last chance to register: www.cilip.org.uk/page/DataCon... #CILIPData25
Last chance to register: www.cilip.org.uk/page/DataCon... #CILIPData25
CILIP Data Protection Conference 2025
21 May 2025, Online The 2025 online Data Protection Conference is designed for anyone with data responsibilities relating to the use of identifiable information and personal data. The programme will support essential professional skills and knowledge in data and information governance; legal compliance; AI; information rights; children's privacy and cyber security.
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May 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Looking forward to contributing and participating in this tomorrow, #CILIPData25 in a talk on "Children as (copy)rights holders: canaries in the coalmine?" and panel with really interesting questions to challenge us in the afternoon.
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This weekend, we've a little Easter egg for dystopian fiction fans. Or is it?
"You are a Year 10 pupil at Horizon Academy. You didn’t sign up for the new system. No one asked for your permission. But your school bought it anyway. What do you do?"
Choose wisely in our Twine.
#HappyEaster2025 1/8🧵
"You are a Year 10 pupil at Horizon Academy. You didn’t sign up for the new system. No one asked for your permission. But your school bought it anyway. What do you do?"
Choose wisely in our Twine.
#HappyEaster2025 1/8🧵
April 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This weekend, we've a little Easter egg for dystopian fiction fans. Or is it?
"You are a Year 10 pupil at Horizon Academy. You didn’t sign up for the new system. No one asked for your permission. But your school bought it anyway. What do you do?"
Choose wisely in our Twine.
#HappyEaster2025 1/8🧵
"You are a Year 10 pupil at Horizon Academy. You didn’t sign up for the new system. No one asked for your permission. But your school bought it anyway. What do you do?"
Choose wisely in our Twine.
#HappyEaster2025 1/8🧵
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Really excited about our #ChildrensRights Group annual lecture on 13/03 w/ @sonialivingstone.bsky.social on #childrights & the #digitalenvironment - with brilliant panelists @jenpersson.com, Data, Tech & Black Communities' Tracey Gyateng, CRiN's Leo Ratledge & our own Kay Firth-Butterfield.
Join us!
Join us!
📣Doughty Street Chambers Children’s Rights Group Annual Children’s Rights Lecture 2024 |Thursday 13 March 2025, 17.30 – 19:00 📣
The lecture will be delivered by @sonialivingstone.bsky.social, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the event will be chaired by @aoifenolan.bsky.social
The lecture will be delivered by @sonialivingstone.bsky.social, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the event will be chaired by @aoifenolan.bsky.social
DOUGHTY STREET CHAMBERS CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUP ANNUAL CHILDREN’S RIGHTS LECTURE 2024
DOUGHTY STREET CHAMBERS CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUP ANNUAL CHILDREN’S RIGHTS LECTURE 2024Thursday 13 March 2025, 17.30 – 19:00 GMT, followed by a reception until 20:00 GMT.Every year, in November, the int...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Really excited about our #ChildrensRights Group annual lecture on 13/03 w/ @sonialivingstone.bsky.social on #childrights & the #digitalenvironment - with brilliant panelists @jenpersson.com, Data, Tech & Black Communities' Tracey Gyateng, CRiN's Leo Ratledge & our own Kay Firth-Butterfield.
Join us!
Join us!
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School pupils’ ‘sex survey’ data offered to researchers: Opt out fails children on reuse of #ID and Local Authorities’ survey
defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/05/s...
#Scotland #Health #Wellbeing #DataBill #DUABill #CWBSBill #DataProtection #privacy #AI #Copyright Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
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#Scotland #Health #Wellbeing #DataBill #DUABill #CWBSBill #DataProtection #privacy #AI #Copyright Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
February 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
School pupils’ ‘sex survey’ data offered to researchers: Opt out fails children on reuse of #ID and Local Authorities’ survey
defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/05/s...
#Scotland #Health #Wellbeing #DataBill #DUABill #CWBSBill #DataProtection #privacy #AI #Copyright Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/05/s...
#Scotland #Health #Wellbeing #DataBill #DUABill #CWBSBill #DataProtection #privacy #AI #Copyright Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill
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BBC News - Scottish school pupil 'sex survey' data offered to researchers - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scottish school pupil 'sex survey' data offered to researchers
The answers are being advertised for use by external researchers without the explicit consent of children or parents.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
BBC News - Scottish school pupil 'sex survey' data offered to researchers - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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My team has got news!
Looking forward to working on this with great team members and collaborators across the UK ⬇️
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Looking forward to working on this with great team members and collaborators across the UK ⬇️
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Cambridge leads governmental project to understand impact of smartphones and social media on young people
Cambridge researchers are leading the first phase of a new research project that will lay the groundwork for future studies into the impact on children of
www.cam.ac.uk
January 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My team has got news!
Looking forward to working on this with great team members and collaborators across the UK ⬇️
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Looking forward to working on this with great team members and collaborators across the UK ⬇️
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Ignoring the role of time in Data Governance.
A blogpost on why we must ensure any public policy or #AI creating inferences of meaning are built only on data that are correct, used within the context in which the meaning intended at source is valid over time. jenpersson.com/ignoring-the... #DUABill
A blogpost on why we must ensure any public policy or #AI creating inferences of meaning are built only on data that are correct, used within the context in which the meaning intended at source is valid over time. jenpersson.com/ignoring-the... #DUABill
Ignoring the role of time in Data Governance
The words we use to define data In the 2021 Defend Digital Me report, The Words We Use in Data Policy: Putting People Back in the Picture, we examined why public conversations about personal data o…
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January 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ignoring the role of time in Data Governance.
A blogpost on why we must ensure any public policy or #AI creating inferences of meaning are built only on data that are correct, used within the context in which the meaning intended at source is valid over time. jenpersson.com/ignoring-the... #DUABill
A blogpost on why we must ensure any public policy or #AI creating inferences of meaning are built only on data that are correct, used within the context in which the meaning intended at source is valid over time. jenpersson.com/ignoring-the... #DUABill
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Can't stop won't stop (making yip yip hanging baskets)
December 17, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Can't stop won't stop (making yip yip hanging baskets)
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"AI providers may struggle to demonstrate their compliance" is about as strong as it gets.
December 13, 2024 at 12:22 PM
"AI providers may struggle to demonstrate their compliance" is about as strong as it gets.
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I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?
The report also delves into privacy and human rights implications of these tools. Transparency, bias, and unintended impacts on users must be carefully managed. Read more on how platforms can enhance trust & safety responsibly: cdt.org/insights/rea... #SafeOnline #ChildOnlineSafety
Real Time Threats: Analysis of Trust and Safety Practices for Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) Prevention on Livestreaming Platforms
This report is also authored by Robert Gorwa. [ PDF version ] Executive Summary In recent years, a range of new online services have emerged that facilitate the ‘livestreaming’ of real-time video and audio. Through these tools, users and content creators around the world can easily broadcast their activities to potentially large global audiences, facilitating […]
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November 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM
I have a new report out w. @cendemtech.bsky.social looking at the latest in automated content moderation for the live-streaming context. Live video is hard to analyze, and - importantly - can’t be hashed and matched to existing infrastructures eg for CSAM detection. How are companies responding?
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As mentioned by @jenpersson.com at today's "Scrambling for Safety" event. 👍
We can't go on letting "safety tech" advocates lobby on the basis of *one* of a child's rights to the exclusion of the rest of their rights.
We can't go on letting "safety tech" advocates lobby on the basis of *one* of a child's rights to the exclusion of the rest of their rights.
2023: A new report, co-published by CRIN and defenddigitalme, aims to capture the full complexity of how encryption affects children’s lives. It sets out principles for an approach to encryption that recognises and respects the full range of their rights
home.crin.org/readlistenwa...
home.crin.org/readlistenwa...
Privacy and Protection: A children’s rights approach to encryption — CRIN
A new report, co-published by CRIN and defenddigitalme aims to capture the full complexity of how encryption affects children’s lives. It sets out principles for an approach to encryption that recogni...
home.crin.org
November 28, 2024 at 7:49 PM
As mentioned by @jenpersson.com at today's "Scrambling for Safety" event. 👍
We can't go on letting "safety tech" advocates lobby on the basis of *one* of a child's rights to the exclusion of the rest of their rights.
We can't go on letting "safety tech" advocates lobby on the basis of *one* of a child's rights to the exclusion of the rest of their rights.
If you are not yet signed up to the UK StopWatch newsletter you should be — this one is a cracker just ahead of Christmas, with a sweep of the state of the nation and what’s new in policing, including tech stories like the #AI powered Omnie Box— “affectionately known as the ‘Bobby Bot’”. 🙄
📰 November 2024 newsletter: Postcode policing and the jackpot for justice
Police forces hit with scandals involving GRT children, admissions of racism and more are rewarded with more powers and funding
open.substack.com/pub/stopwatc...
Police forces hit with scandals involving GRT children, admissions of racism and more are rewarded with more powers and funding
open.substack.com/pub/stopwatc...
November 30, 2024 at 9:13 AM
If you are not yet signed up to the UK StopWatch newsletter you should be — this one is a cracker just ahead of Christmas, with a sweep of the state of the nation and what’s new in policing, including tech stories like the #AI powered Omnie Box— “affectionately known as the ‘Bobby Bot’”. 🙄
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2023: A new report, co-published by CRIN and defenddigitalme, aims to capture the full complexity of how encryption affects children’s lives. It sets out principles for an approach to encryption that recognises and respects the full range of their rights
home.crin.org/readlistenwa...
home.crin.org/readlistenwa...
Privacy and Protection: A children’s rights approach to encryption — CRIN
A new report, co-published by CRIN and defenddigitalme aims to capture the full complexity of how encryption affects children’s lives. It sets out principles for an approach to encryption that recogni...
home.crin.org
November 28, 2024 at 1:52 PM
2023: A new report, co-published by CRIN and defenddigitalme, aims to capture the full complexity of how encryption affects children’s lives. It sets out principles for an approach to encryption that recognises and respects the full range of their rights
home.crin.org/readlistenwa...
home.crin.org/readlistenwa...
Tonight—includes me on why the Home Office has tried to match over 7.2K school pupils’ records from the Dept for Education, which has handed over 1.8K since we discovered govt using education records to further the Hostile Environment, the role of @ICOnews and what to do about it.
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Next webinar from Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment is on Monday, 5.30pm GMT. On education & the hostile environment, ft. a stellar line up: the National Education Union, Digital Defend Me, Louise Ryan, María López & Alessia Dalceggio. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ssahe-nove...
SSAHE November Webinar: “Education and the Hostile Environment”
A webinar on the Hostile Environment for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in UK education
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November 25, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Tonight—includes me on why the Home Office has tried to match over 7.2K school pupils’ records from the Dept for Education, which has handed over 1.8K since we discovered govt using education records to further the Hostile Environment, the role of @ICOnews and what to do about it.
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Foundation for Information Policy Research event 'Scrambling for Safety' on Nov 28th
Panels with excellent speakers on chat control, online safety, and government decision-making & AI (this panel chaired by me)
Friends House London or online - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scrambling...
Panels with excellent speakers on chat control, online safety, and government decision-making & AI (this panel chaired by me)
Friends House London or online - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scrambling...
Scrambling for Safety
FIPR: Helping policy makers understand what technology can and can't do.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Foundation for Information Policy Research event 'Scrambling for Safety' on Nov 28th
Panels with excellent speakers on chat control, online safety, and government decision-making & AI (this panel chaired by me)
Friends House London or online - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scrambling...
Panels with excellent speakers on chat control, online safety, and government decision-making & AI (this panel chaired by me)
Friends House London or online - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scrambling...
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Next webinar from Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment is on Monday, 5.30pm GMT. On education & the hostile environment, ft. a stellar line up: the National Education Union, Digital Defend Me, Louise Ryan, María López & Alessia Dalceggio. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ssahe-nove...
SSAHE November Webinar: “Education and the Hostile Environment”
A webinar on the Hostile Environment for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in UK education
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Next webinar from Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment is on Monday, 5.30pm GMT. On education & the hostile environment, ft. a stellar line up: the National Education Union, Digital Defend Me, Louise Ryan, María López & Alessia Dalceggio. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ssahe-nove...
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Join next Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment webinar on Monday, 25 November 2024, 17:30-19:00
No child is illegal! Education and the hostile environment with Louise Ryan, María López and Alessia Dalceggio, @jenpersson.com, Deborah Gwynn.
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No child is illegal! Education and the hostile environment with Louise Ryan, María López and Alessia Dalceggio, @jenpersson.com, Deborah Gwynn.
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No child is illegal! Education and the hostile environment: Register for SSAHE webinar
SSAHE November Webinar | “Education and the Hostile Environment” Monday 25th November 2024, 17:30-19:00 To register: Standing up for school children in the Hostile Environment: what can we do? Jen …
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November 21, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Join next Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment webinar on Monday, 25 November 2024, 17:30-19:00
No child is illegal! Education and the hostile environment with Louise Ryan, María López and Alessia Dalceggio, @jenpersson.com, Deborah Gwynn.
ssahe.net/2024/11/20/n...
No child is illegal! Education and the hostile environment with Louise Ryan, María López and Alessia Dalceggio, @jenpersson.com, Deborah Gwynn.
ssahe.net/2024/11/20/n...
Peers call for a #DataProtection Code of Practice to apply in Education Settings
Defend Digital Me notes and quotes from Second Reading debate last night on the Data Use and Access Bill #DUABill in the context of #education
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/20/p... #privacy #ChildRights #DataProtection
Defend Digital Me notes and quotes from Second Reading debate last night on the Data Use and Access Bill #DUABill in the context of #education
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/20/p... #privacy #ChildRights #DataProtection
Peers call for Code of Practice in Educational Settings: Data Use and Access Bill — Defend Digital Me
School data processing practices, including AI and data scraping from school social media, were hot topics in debate of the reform to UK data protection law. Baroness Kidron, Lord Clement-Jones and Lo...
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November 20, 2024 at 1:03 PM
Peers call for a #DataProtection Code of Practice to apply in Education Settings
Defend Digital Me notes and quotes from Second Reading debate last night on the Data Use and Access Bill #DUABill in the context of #education
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/20/p... #privacy #ChildRights #DataProtection
Defend Digital Me notes and quotes from Second Reading debate last night on the Data Use and Access Bill #DUABill in the context of #education
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/20/p... #privacy #ChildRights #DataProtection
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I’m in the House of Lords now, with @theabb.bsky.social setting the context and introducing tonight’s speakers who will discuss Ai and school social media use; parental views of use of EdTech & implications of children’s rights
Data Use and Access Bill: the Defend Digital Me view, briefing, and call to action
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/17/d...
#MyRecordsMyRights #DataBill #DUABill
Tonight from 17:30: Event at the Houses of Parliament C’ttee Room 3 #Data #Education Settings and #AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/17/d...
#MyRecordsMyRights #DataBill #DUABill
Tonight from 17:30: Event at the Houses of Parliament C’ttee Room 3 #Data #Education Settings and #AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
Children’s data use and access in educational settings in the context of AI
Children's privacy and copyright in schools, discuss policy and practice in the context of AI and new data law. Join us Nov 18 at 5:30 PM
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I’m in the House of Lords now, with @theabb.bsky.social setting the context and introducing tonight’s speakers who will discuss Ai and school social media use; parental views of use of EdTech & implications of children’s rights
Data Use and Access Bill: the Defend Digital Me view, briefing, and call to action
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/17/d...
#MyRecordsMyRights #DataBill #DUABill
Tonight from 17:30: Event at the Houses of Parliament C’ttee Room 3 #Data #Education Settings and #AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/17/d...
#MyRecordsMyRights #DataBill #DUABill
Tonight from 17:30: Event at the Houses of Parliament C’ttee Room 3 #Data #Education Settings and #AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
Children’s data use and access in educational settings in the context of AI
Children's privacy and copyright in schools, discuss policy and practice in the context of AI and new data law. Join us Nov 18 at 5:30 PM
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Data Use and Access Bill: the Defend Digital Me view, briefing, and call to action
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/17/d...
#MyRecordsMyRights #DataBill #DUABill
Tonight from 17:30: Event at the Houses of Parliament C’ttee Room 3 #Data #Education Settings and #AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
defenddigitalme.org/2024/11/17/d...
#MyRecordsMyRights #DataBill #DUABill
Tonight from 17:30: Event at the Houses of Parliament C’ttee Room 3 #Data #Education Settings and #AI
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
Nov. 18th 2024, 5.30-7pm
Children's Data: Use and Access in Educational Settings and #AI incl. 3 *new* research areas
Committee Room 4, Houses of Parliament
On the eve of the 2nd Reading of new UK #DUABill #DataBill #HOL
Registration open, an in-person event
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
Children's Data: Use and Access in Educational Settings and #AI incl. 3 *new* research areas
Committee Room 4, Houses of Parliament
On the eve of the 2nd Reading of new UK #DUABill #DataBill #HOL
Registration open, an in-person event
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
November 14, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Nov. 18th 2024, 5.30-7pm
Children's Data: Use and Access in Educational Settings and #AI incl. 3 *new* research areas
Committee Room 4, Houses of Parliament
On the eve of the 2nd Reading of new UK #DUABill #DataBill #HOL
Registration open, an in-person event
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
Children's Data: Use and Access in Educational Settings and #AI incl. 3 *new* research areas
Committee Room 4, Houses of Parliament
On the eve of the 2nd Reading of new UK #DUABill #DataBill #HOL
Registration open, an in-person event
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/childrens-...
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Oh. That's just delightful.
"Jen Persson, director of Defend Digital Me, said pupil data should be used “for the purposes of their education and that alone”, not for the DWP to “hunt people down”. She said that more than 15 million people on the database today “have already left school”.
"Jen Persson, director of Defend Digital Me, said pupil data should be used “for the purposes of their education and that alone”, not for the DWP to “hunt people down”. She said that more than 15 million people on the database today “have already left school”.
Benefit fraud squad snoops on pupil data under secret deal
Leaders warn the move may lead to parents 'withdrawing their children from schools'
schoolsweek.co.uk
May 10, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Oh. That's just delightful.
"Jen Persson, director of Defend Digital Me, said pupil data should be used “for the purposes of their education and that alone”, not for the DWP to “hunt people down”. She said that more than 15 million people on the database today “have already left school”.
"Jen Persson, director of Defend Digital Me, said pupil data should be used “for the purposes of their education and that alone”, not for the DWP to “hunt people down”. She said that more than 15 million people on the database today “have already left school”.