Another reason for schools to ban cellphones.

We have the world reserve currency, the currency that most nations stash (used to be gold), to protect their economies. This protects the US economy from things that would normally crash other nations, like printing all that money during the pandemic. We also have a service economy. Most Americans don't want to work in factories and if they did, most of us couldn't afford what they produce.

Most schools don't have the money to code something like this. The schools that do, should be spending that money on something else instead of reinventing the wheel. The regulations on what data schools have to collect and submit to state and federal governments make creating something like this impossible. I also don't see how you expect a school to vet the security. It also doesn't help that funding is being cut to CISA. Many school districts host powerschool locally but the hacker used a support tool to download the databases.

I'm guessing there will be lawsuits over if updates are included or not.

I'm not a fan of PowerSchool, but who are they selling the data to? The one example looked like it was just a tool to compare to other schools. As for anonymized data, it might just be counts and percentages. Thanks for the link. I'm all for student data privacy. I push for it within, but this could hurt schools. I use competing products.

The data collected for LMS is often similar to an SIS, assignments and grades plus some demographic information.

PowerSchool isn't collecting data just to collect it. The data is required by schools to operate and PowerSchool's business model is to sell software to schools.

They do. It is also federal law, FERPA. Not saying that a teacher won't go and download a random math app that has no vetting, but something like a student information system defiantly has something in the contract on who owns and controls the data.

PowerSchool is a Student Information System used by schools to manage REQUIRED (grades, attendance, behavior) data. The lawsuit isn't alleging any data collected beyond what I would expect a student information to collect. There is also no evidence that they sold any data. "Cherkin, a Seattle mother of two, former teacher, and author of the new parenting guide "The Screentime Solution," is now the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit that alleges the education technology giant PowerSchool is selling student data" It looks like an anit-technology in education activist going after the deepest pockets.

I wouldn't call 2 launches out of 100s regular. SpaceX is suing because they disagree on the interpretation of the rules.

Ships move. A few degrees at launch could impact the orbit and performance of the rocket. Plus, other than the starlink launches, most of their customers are government.

It hasn't. If anything, it has gotten cheaper as technology has improved. They want a handout. They also lobby against cities building their own fiber networks. If Google hadn't forced the ISP to increase speeds, we would still have DSL speeds.

So, what is the solution to not having coal or gas power plants without nuclear power? Solar and Wind are great, but we don't have enough room near where people live and work to install them. Electric cars make the problem harder by increasing electricity demand. Maybe costs will come down if we start building them in larger quantities again.

My local movie theater has them and they remodeled in 2021. I had to tie my shoe and glanced up at one and it had mold growing in the bottom of it. I think I'll stick with paper towels. If we are worried about killing trees for paper towels, we can make them out of hemp.

I saw so many chin diapers.