From ReclaimTheNet.org…
Some schools in the US state of Virginia have signed a 5-year-deal with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg-backed consulting firm, paying over $1.8 million from the COVID emergency funds for a program known as the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Universal Screener.
The deal, inked by Fairfax County Public Schools means that confidential personal data belonging to 190,000 students will be collected by Panorama Education, a consultancy with strong links with one of the most notoriously bad “custodians” of private data, Facebook – and this has some parents up in arms, local media reports.
Both Zuckerberg and his wife are investors in Panorama Education, which has, in addition to access to students’ data, and the money awarded by the contract, also been given unusual status within the school district.
As per the text of the contract, Panorama Education and its representatives “shall be deemed to be school officials of the School Board.”
