buying it more than four thousand have signed a petition rejecting the in bloom program including karen sproul who spoke with our t.v. about her concerns for her ten year old son and millions of others the new york state department did not notify parents they didn't give x. for consent. we kind of just stumbled on it and discovered it just seems like parents were taken out of the equation completely in terms of protecting the children's privacy we were not aware that the new york state department made a deal with bill gates in blue nonprofit organization to upload all of our children's personal data. to parents as well. for the purpose of personalized learning for me this is particularly alarming because my child has special needs. and his school records are essential to his medical records whereas in any other instance releases would have to be signed for any of the information to be released to a third party you don't even know who will have access to your child's records if there's breaches you wouldn't even know because it's so massive. and the extent to the information that's being upload