Perceptions and civil society are quickly losing trust in technology and the problem isn't just NSA or Snowden. The challenges are many and its really time to understand that innovation isn't about having no rules or breaking the rules. Its only as good as you put in. Diligence and Ethical considerations are vital to the effectiveness and value that an innovative offer brings to market. If the cost are high or risk are high and benefits few-is it worth investing? Not likely.
So how valuable is data out of context without date stamps? Its just raw data.
Responses from the students who went to their communities to survey and gain feedback on the equality amongst schools are shown below.
Now let's consider the benefits to profiling students during school for "health surveillance" without a parental consent or prior informed consent.
a) designate a student as high risk and the students performance is omitted or excused due to family circumstances.
b) designate a student with mental health issues and the student becomes disabled? Yes, in fact the parents are often taken to criminal court for neglect when students are marked absent by a phone systems which calls every child's home 2 or more times a day.
I've had students take a picture under the clock to prove they are in class and even when evidence exit the phone system dials the child at home.
Or how about the address data being off and I receive court notices for another persons child and they receive the notices for my child.
Neither of us show up as we assumed it wasn't about our child.
Or how about the child whose captain of the football team and a star student in his engineering 101 class with all passing on the higher end of the grading spectrum whose being taken to truancy court for having a sleep disorder.