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Anita B. Hoge A Preliminary Analysis of the Bill by Anita Hoge Source: http://help.senate.gov/imo/media/AEG15033.pdf This bill was presented twice and referred to committee. Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015 sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander. This bill amends No Child Left Behind which is the Re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 […]
EFF Note: The bulk of the research in this post was compiled prior to Attorney General Eric Holder’s surprise announcement that he is curtailing the federal equitable sharing program. The post may be updated as further ramifications of the policy decision become clear. “You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you […]
Assessing the babies is Obama’s agenda http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/inftodd/mod1/1.1.pdf Anita B. Hoge An Alert by Anita Hoge This is the birth to kindergarten mental health interventions for our babies. This is research for the early learning and the $1 billion that Obama is funding for daycare and preschool. http://ecmhc.org/documents/CECMHC_FacilitatingToolkit.pdf This toolkit Facilitating Individualized Interventions to Address Challenging Behavior is […]
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE RULES FOR HIPAA AND FERPA COVERING AN EDUCATION RECORD An Alert by Anita Hoge Anita B. Hoge EDUCATION RECORDS ARE NOT COVERED BY HIPAA. NO MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AT SCHOOL ARE COVERED BY HIPAA. Explanation of HIPPA and FERPA-Early Childhood Data can be found in this document: A Look at Pennsylvania’s Early Childhood Data System […]
Riseup, a tech collective that provides security-minded communications to activists worldwide, sounded the alarm last month when a judge in Spain stated that the use of their email service is a practice, he believes, associated with terrorism. Javier Gómez Bermúdez is a judge of Audiencia Nacional, a special high court in Spain that deals with […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An education analyst says President Barack Obama’s call for stronger protection of student digital data is “bogus.” The president earlier this week proposed a new Student Digital Privacy Act aimed at preventing companies from selling sensitive student information collected in schools and from using such data to target advertising to children, according […]
Scott Walker’s Plan to Privatize Schools Anita B. Hoge An Alert by Anita Hoge https://goleftamerica.wildapricot.org/stop-charter-school-takeover “After cutting a billion dollars from education, Scott Walker and his GOP friends have achieved the goal sinking the educational potential of Wisconsin Schools. On their first day back in session, Assembly Republicans seeking a free market solution have introduced a bill […]
John W. Whitehead, Founder, the Rutherford Institute “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way […]
PEN America published a report this week summarizing the findings from a recent survey of 772 writers around the world on questions of surveillance and self-censorship. The report, entitled “Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers,” builds upon a late 2013 survey of more than 500 US-based writers conducted by the organization. […]
A House Republican is criticizing a piece of legislation just passed by Congress as grossly unconstitutional because it essentially gives the federal government and local law enforcement “unlimited access to the communications of every American.” As reported by InfoWars.com, Rep. Justin Amash of Wisconsin said he found a passage in the Intelligence Authorization Act for […]
Katherine Albrecht (l), Liz McIntyre ® Facebook Atlas: Giving Advertisers Invasive Maps of Your Life Facebook has quietly introduced a new service for advertisers called “Facebook Atlas,” and we’re giving it a “thumbs down” because it’s not good for your privacy. Like an atlas, it offers a collection of maps, but these maps show the whereabouts […]
First Public Court Challenge to “Upstream” Internet Spying Oakland — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue on Friday before a federal court that the National Security Agency (NSA) is violating the Fourth Amendment by copying and searching data that it collects by tapping into the Internet backbone. The hearing on a motion for partial […]
TORONTO – Could there be something more sinister behind the little elf sitting on the shelf who returns to the North Pole each night? Yes, says Laura Pinto, a digital technology professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She recently published a paper titled “Who’s the Boss” on the doll, saying the idea of […]
More frightening than anything else: In the nightmare world progressives are designing for civil society, little tots are no longer your little tots. They are government-sought human resources to be raised as tomorrow’s anarchists. “On Wednesday, the White House Summit on Early Education will unveil nearly $1 billion in new “investments” to “expand access to high-quality […]
More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them. Earlier this month (March, 2012), Petraeus mused about the emergence of an “Internet of Things” — that is, wired […]
There’s a new international survey on Internet security and trust, of “23,376 Internet users in 24 countries,” including “Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey and the United States.” Amongst the findings, 60% of Internet […]
Your Gift From Anita B Hoge (Source) A Link To Your Federal Grant in Your State Creating A “National ID” When thinking about the violations of privacy that were exposed by Edward Snowden for the NSA monitoring emails and phone conversations.… Honestly! Snowden’s release of this information is child’s play compared to what the government is collecting […]
Congress this week quietly passed a bill that may give unprecedented legal authority to the government’s warrantless surveillance powers, despite a last-minute effort by Rep. Justin Amash to kill the bill. Amash staged an aggressive eleventh-hour rally Wednesday night to block passage of the Intelligence Authorization Act, which will fund intelligence agencies for the next fiscal […]
You may recall, back in June, that there was a key House vote that took NSA supporters by surprise. An amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill pushed by a bi-partisan team of Thomas Massie, Jim Sensenbrenner and Zoe Lofgren passed overwhelmingly, with a plan to slam the door shut on questionable NSA “backdoor searches” (as […]
EFF, ACLU Support Smith in Fighting Mass Surveillance Before Ninth Circuit Seattle — An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, a case filed by an Idaho nurse against a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone data collection program, in Seattle on Monday, Dec. 8. Attorney Peter Smith. Credit: Lukins & Annis Anna Smith, […]
The Story Behind the Pennsylvania Press Release and Open Letter By Anita Hoge, 3D Research Group Anita B. Hoge “I have grave concerns about the direction that the Common Core standards movement has taken, as well as, my concerns of the ethics of testing and teaching in the affective domain. I must question the legality […]
Note: FA is not espousing an opinion or position here on racism in the United States, or the killing of Michael Brown. We hope increased sunlighting through filming of authorities will help restablish liberty, peace and justice in this nation. Dystopian futures have always imagined governments oppressing us with surveillance. Under the all-seeing, all-hearing eyes […]
FA Notes: A JAMA survey reports 14.2 percent of adolescents ages 13 to 18 years with any mental disorder reported being treated with a psychotropic medication. Some psychiatrists admit psychiatric disorders are not medical diseases; there are no lab tests, brain scans, X‑rays or chemical imbalance tests that can verify any mental disorder is a physical condition. Federal law […]
Think you know how your local cops are spying on you? The ACLU of California’s “Making Smart Decisions About Surveillance: A Guide for Communities” is a new resource that can help you figure out what surveillance technology is being deployed in your community—and what you can do about it. And as we’ve pointed out, while […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
