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Across the UK state education sector and beyond | National Pupil Data | #edTech | data | humanrights | ChildRights | #StateOfData2020 | #StandUpToSurveillance
Dec 1 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
It's our annual #HappyAdvent National Pupil Database countdown calendar!

Even more MPs than ever, aged under 50 in the @HouseofCommons, are now in the data too—including half the Cabinet Ministers—but do they know where their data go? 1/26

What's the NPD defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/upl…A pictorial montage of 24 facts about the National Pupil Database of which one a day will be released full size, and readable, until December 2024. The background to why can be read online at https://defenddigitalme.org/national-pupil-data-the-ico-audit-and-our-work-for-change-a-timeline/ Happy Advent. 1. What’s the National Pupil Database? It’s a giant joined up set of over 25 #data collections from pupils in state #education at age 0-25, controlled by the Department for Education, kept forever.

New this year, browse the 100s of items 👉

#DUABill 2/26 find-npd-data.education.gov.uk/categoriesWhat is the national pupil database? It is a melting pot of over 25 data collections from pupils in state education at age 0-25 in England and some pupils who live in Wales, or students in Higher Education from across the UK, controlled by the Department for Education, kept forever.
Jul 14 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The DfE receives twice daily the attendance and absence data of every named child on roll, so this is not a new register to record either persistent absence nor truancy. 1/

@BBCr4today @BBCBreakfast @itvnews @Channel4News @thetimes Knowing the ‘children missing education’ is already a legal obligation on Local Authorities in s436A of the Education Act 1996. A call for a new, especially any national database to record these children is misguided in its duplication. 2/
May 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“As it stands, there is no overall accountability [body] for the surveillance technology being used in schools in relation to children.”

#EdTech #DPDIBill #DataBill #Privacy #Surveillance #Biometrics #ChildRights “It’s become increasingly mundane to see intrusive and inappropriate surveillance technologies, once reserved for the police and prison estate, deployed in our schools,” says Caitlin Bishop, senior campaigns officer at Privacy International.
Jan 13 • 20 tweets • 7 min read
#PostOfficeScandal shows how computer data about you can mislead, give no recourse or redress, and leave you powerless against corporations and the State

Many reasons why we oppose the rewrite of UK #dataprotection law #DPDIBill #HandsOffOurData #GDPR 1/bills.parliament.uk/bills/3430 Defend Digital Me is calling for the #DPDIBill to be withdrawn. This Bill gives more power to data users, companies and govt, and takes it away from people who the data are about.

#DPDIBill #HandsOffOurData #dataprotection #GDPR #digitalrights

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Nov 6, 2022 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Earlier today, we posted a thread of what happened after Michael Gove announced plans to open up the National Pupil Database for commercial re-use ten years ago on November 6th, 2012
But let’s also remember what happened before then, starting in 2002. 1/10 Twenty years ago the then Lab. government decided to add names to create pupil-level records for the first time in the formerly aggregated school-level census (as still mostly done in private schools). news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education… Terri Dowty was on the ball from the start. 2/10
Nov 6, 2022 • 15 tweets • 12 min read
Ten years ago today, on November 6, 2012, Michael Gove announced plans to open up the National Pupil Database for commercial re-use. "It could also help stimulate the market for innovative tools and services."
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cm…
#MyRecordsMyRights #PupilData #DataProtection He changed the law to let the DfE distribute identifying pupil-level data “for a wider range of purposes than currently possible” to “maximise the value of this rich dataset”. #MyRecordsMyRights #DataProtection Ten years later “confidentiality and security” are not working. 2/15
Feb 23, 2019 • 11 tweets • 12 min read
“These are not A Levels or GCSEs with results that count on an individual basis in the long term.” #MoreThanAScore @MoreThanScore we disagree these don’t count @DamianHinds — here’s why. @MoreThanScore @DamianHinds The SAT results (as well as KS1 and Phones tests) are sent for each child on a named basis, to loads of third party companies. They then profile each child using the scores. #MoreThanAScore @MoreThanScore #PlayNotTestsAt4 This is one company example.