Student-Targeting Data Harvester InBloom Closes Shop, CEO Blames Parents For Their 'Misdirected Criticism'
InBloom, the company created to harvest Big Data on little schoolchildren, has shut down.
Via Techdirt:
It is with no great sadness that I bring you the news that schoolkid data harvester inBloom will be shutting down. Many schools were looking for a better way to quantify their student body, and this solution seemed to be just as much of a judgment error as any.
People may like Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets, but they still value privacy, especially when it comes to their kids. It may seem counterintuitive, but that's the way it is. It's one thing if your kids give this information up voluntarily. It's quite another when it's extracted by their educators and handed off to a...