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• IBM, Pearson and the Cognitive Infrastructure for Education http://dmlcentral.net/ibm-pearson-cognitive-infrastructure-education/
• Propublica Judiciary Article: https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing 
• Understanding student behaviour through data crunching:
• https://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/05/electronic-data-trail-huddersfield-loughborough-university 
• Student webcam surveillance: http://boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html 
• Maha on Sharing/Ownership ≠ Empowerment: http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/pedagogy/critical-pedagogy/sharingownership-%E2%89%A0-empowerment-2/
• Shoshana Zuboff: Be the friction - Our Response to the New Lords of the Ring http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/the-surveillance-paradigm-be-the-friction-our-response-to-the-new-lords-of-the-ring-12241996.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2
• Audrey Watters: A Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society http://hackeducation.com/2016/08/23/domains
• Audrey Watters: Pearson, PARCC, Privacy, Surveillance, & Trust http://hackeducation.com/2015/03/17/pearson-spy
• Tactical Tech Collective: Digital Security and Privacy https://tacticaltech.org/projects/28
• Jisc Code of practice for learning analytics https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/code-of-practice-for-learning-analytics
• Ethics and privacy in learning analytics - a special issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics; http://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/JLA/issue/view/373/showToc
• "An email sent to Michigan State University last weekend attempting to "extort money" helped the university identify a data breach that affected about 400,000 records and included names, Social Security numbers and MSU identification numbers, a university spokesman said Friday evening." http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/11/18/msu-names-and-social-security-numbers-accessed-data-breach/94086880/
• THE UK IS ABOUT TO WIELD UNPRECEDENTED SURVEILLANCE POWERS — HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13718768/uk-surveillance-laws-explained-investigatory-powers-bill
• University of Edinburgh to monitor staff location http://thechronicleofeducation.com/2016/04/20/university-edinburgh-monitor-staff-location/
• Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censorship-tool-china.html
• Has the Internet Become a Failed State? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/27/has-internet-become-failed-state-crime-cyberspace 
• School for teenage codebreakers to open in Bletchley Park https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/24/college-of-national-security-teenage-codebreakers-school-open-bletchley-park
• Filter Bubble: The internet is increasingly becoming an echo chamber in which websites tailor information according to the preferences they detect in each viewer. https://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/27/eli_pariser_on_the_filter_bubble 

1. Everything that can be automated will be automated.
2. Everything that can be informated will be informated.
3. Every digital application that can be used for surveillance and control will be used for surveillance and control.

1. A document management system, whereby a faculty member can transfer a single document to his or her students.  Curiously overpowered for this purpose, nevertheless universally deployed.
2. A good way to avoid legal notices about copyright.
3. The graveyard of pedagogical intentions. A sump for IT budgets.

1. 1.When ordinary surveillance just isn’t enough.
2. “the Grail, the white whale, the mother lode, the object of all desire – ‘It was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Data'” (Ed Webb).
3. Nostalgia for Skinner boxes.  (tip of the hat to Audrey Watters) (suggested by Laura Gibbs)

• [On Minecraft Connected Camps] "BusterPlax has been so excited about learning how to code and I mean seriously excited. He says that everyone was really nice and very helpful and he loved every minute of it. So, we are all very thankful for all the work you did on the Coding Camp. You all have magically found a way to bring excitement to discovery and that is something rare." Philip Millenbah, Parent (of BusterPlax)
• “Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.”  Henry Jenkins
• “Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.”  Jeff Jarvis
• "In this new world of computing, we're no longer expected to manage our computing environment. We trust the feudal lords to treat us well and potent us from harm” -- Bruce Schneier 
• "Freedom depends on the information environment that those individuals and societies occupy. Information underlies the very possibility of individual self-direction” Yoshi Benkler 2006
• "The pigeon. The object of technological experimentation, manipulation, and control, weaponized. The pigeon. The child. The object of ed-tech. The pigeon. The history of the future of education technology." Audrey Watters 
• "There’s no sort of "this is the link that is the best link." It’s the best link for you. And the definition of what the best link for you is, is the thing that you’re the most likely to click. So, it’s not necessarily what you need to know; it’s what you want to know, what you’re most likely to click." Eli Pariser 
• "You can have anonymous data or you can have open science, but you can't have both." Justin Reich in "Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences"; http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2014/08/privacy_anonymity_and_big_data_in_the_social_sciences.html