Schools ‘spy’ on fat kids

[LivnForChrist]

Monitors raise privacy fear

By MARY KAY LINGE
January 15, 2012

Big Brother is joining the battle of the bulge.

A group of Long Island students will soon be wearing controversial electronic monitors that allow school officials to track their
physical activity around the clock.

The athletics chair for the Bay Shore schools ordered 10 Polar Active monitors, at $90 a pop, for use starting this spring. The
wristwatchlike devices count heartbeats, detect motion and even track students’ sleeping habits in a bid to combat obesity.


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[mattfivefour]

Ted Nagengast, the Bay Shore athletics chair, said, “It’s a great reinforcement in fighting the obesity epidemic. It tells kids, in real time, ‘Am I active? Am I not active?’ We want to give kids the opportunity to become active.”

That would not be a bad idea IF it were just for the kids (and their parents) to see. But it is not. The administrators and educators view that info about each child and also compile and store this info for their own use.

“When you get into monitoring people’s biological vital signs, that’s a pretty intrusive measurement,” said Jay Stanley, of the American Civil Liberties Union. “There are key privacy interests at play.”At the very least, says Stanley, parents must have a say in how long the data will be stored and who will have access to it and schools must obtain parents’ consent.“A program like this should only be voluntary. Nobody should be forced to reveal biological indicators,” he said.“It’s all about secondary use,” said Virginia Rezmierski, an expert on information technology and privacy at the University of Michigan.“Does the data pass along with the child from school to school? When will insurance companies want to get access to it? Will a school want to medicate a child that the monitor identifies as hyperactive? It’s potentially very dangerous ground.”

Exactly! Another bad—and potentially dangerous—idea from those who think they can fix people and make society better.

[WKUHilltopper]

Schools appear to have little to do with academics these days. This is all more about compliance training. Doing what the collective tells you without question. Conditioning to take orders and to submit to intrusive individual matters. But yet, schools need more money?? LOL!

I've yet to be asked in a job interview if I could probably place a condom on a banana. Nor have that listed on any resume. But yet, there it is...and we tolerate this??

[mattfivefour]

You're right, bro. Educators no longer desire to educate the mind but to conform behavior to desired standards. Producing pliable citizens—or agents of reform (depending on the philosophies of those in educational power)—is the purpose.

[Forgiven]

In short, a company in Finland will be using American kids as guinea pigs for marketing purposes



from the Polar (manufacturer's) website:


Personal data and the file will be used within the limits of the Personal Data Act and with the consent of the registered person:

a) as basic information for research and product development

b) for researching customer behaviour

c) for marketing communication, and/or

d) for the purposes of the after sales of products


DATA CONTENT OF THE FILE

necessary fields

a) first name

b) last name

c) nick name

d) email address

e) gender, and

f) date of birth

g) country

h) purchased product or software

i) date of purchase


REGULAR RECIPENTS OF PERSONAL DATA AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA TO OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

In order to provide best possible service to you, data may be shared with legal entities within Polar Group globally. All Polar group companies will comply to this Privacy Policy. By your consent, data may be disclosed to Polar Electro Oy's distributors, service providers and strategic partners. The consent can be given on by registrating at Polar web/mobile sites. Data may be transferred or disclosed with the help of a technical connection or as a technical recording.


https://register.polar.fi/legal/lega...00&modal=false

[WKUHilltopper]

In short, a company in Finland will be using American kids as guinea pigs for marketing purposes



from the Polar (manufacturer's) website:


Personal data and the file will be used within the limits of the Personal Data Act and with the consent of the registered person:

a) as basic information for research and product development

b) for researching customer behaviour

c) for marketing communication, and/or

d) for the purposes of the after sales of products


DATA CONTENT OF THE FILE

necessary fields

a) first name

b) last name

c) nick name

d) email address

e) gender, and

f) date of birth

g) country

h) purchased product or software

i) date of purchase


REGULAR RECIPENTS OF PERSONAL DATA AND TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA TO OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION OF EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

In order to provide best possible service to you, data may be shared with legal entities within Polar Group globally. All Polar group companies will comply to this Privacy Policy. By your consent, data may be disclosed to Polar Electro Oy's distributors, service providers and strategic partners. The consent can be given on by registrating at Polar web/mobile sites. Data may be transferred or disclosed with the help of a technical connection or as a technical recording.


https://register.polar.fi/legal/lega...00&modal=false

It's for the children...

[YeuEmMaiMai]

test bed for further implimentation........imaging having to wear one of those as a condition of employment and getting insurance coverage.......