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Cultivate Learning

UNIVERSITY of WASHINGTON

Parent/Guardian Permission Form: Classroom Video Recording for Early Childhood Education Research

Dear Parent or Guardian,
Your child's classroom is participating in a research study led by Dr. Gail Joseph and the Cultivate Learning team at the University of Washington. The goal of this study is to better understand children's everyday learning experiences and to develop Al tools that can help assess classroom interaction quality. We are writing to ask for your permission to include your child in this study.

What Will Happen in the Classroom

With your permission, your child's lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher's approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the classroom. These videos simply capture the normal interactions between teachers and children during regular classroom activities. Recordings occur during morning program hours up to 150 minutes, up to 4 visits in one month. Your child will not be asked to do anything new or different. Their daily routine will stay exactly the same.

How Will the Video Recordings Be Used?

The video recordings may be used for the following purposes, but not limited to:

1. Supporting Teachers Through Coaching and Al Tools. Videos will be used to develop and evaluate Al models for assessing classroom interaction quality. This involves multiple steps:

• Human coding: Trained research staff will watch and code videos using validated classroom observation tools to evaluate the quality of teacher-child interactions.
• Human-coded data from these videos will be used to train and improve Al models so they can more accurately identify high-quality teaching practices over time. Al tools will also analyze the same recordings to generate codes and justifications. Only the research team uses these coded videos to train secure, private Al models.
• Teaching summary: After all recording sessions and coding are complete, teachers will receive a written observation summary based on human-coded scores, reviewed by a member of the research team.

2. Research on Children's Learning Experiences. Video data will be used to study how individual children experience their classroom environment, including how often they interact with teachers and the quality of those interactions. This research aims to better understand what supports positive learning outcomes for young children. This may help your child's teacher provide the best classroom experiences to nurture your child's growth and learning.
3. Research Publications & Conference Presentations. Short clips or images may be included in academic publications or presented at professional conferences to illustrate study findings. Children's identities will be protected whenever possible by using blurring faces and editing out the child's name in the audio.
4. Project Demonstration Videos. Brief clips may be used in videos that explain how the Al system works. These clips will not publicly identify your child, and will be selected with care to respect children's privacy.
5. Restricted-Access Research Dataset. Clips or related data may be shared in a secure, restricted research dataset to support future early childhood education research.

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Al Processing and Data Security

Video data may be processed using cloud-based Al services. These services are accessed through restricted, authenticated API credentials and are governed by commercial data processing agreements that prohibit the use of submitted data for model training or product improvement. The specific Al tools and models used may evolve over the course of the study as technology advances; any such tools will be subject to equivalent or stronger data protection commitments. These tools do not publicly share, post, or reuse your child's data for any reason. Data may be retained by the provider for a limited period (e.g., up to 55 days) solely for internal monitoring, after which it is deleted. All video data is stored and managed in accordance with University of Washington data security policies.

Only authorized research team members and individuals from the UW or other agencies that may need to audit study records will be given access to identifiable video data. All activities comply with UW Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and applicable FERPA regulations.

Video recordings of your child will never be posted online, shared publicly, or used for marketing. They are only for the research purposes described above. However, it is possible that someone who is not authorized to view the videos or study data will accidentally gain access to them despite our best efforts to protect your child's privacy.

Research staff are required by Washington State law to report any evidence of child abuse or neglect to the appropriate authorities.

The information that we obtain from your child for this study might be used for future studies. We may remove anything that might identify your child from the information. If we do so, the information may then be used for future research studies or given to another investigator without getting additional permission from you. It is also possible that in the future we may want to use or share study information that might identify your child. If we do, a review board will decide whether or not we need to get additional permission from you.

Your Rights

• Participation is completely voluntary. You may decline or withdraw your child from the research at any time. Your decision will not affect your child's enrollment or standing in the program. - If you change your mind, simply let the teacher or research team know, and we will remove any recordings that include your child. Please note that if recordings have already been used in Al model training or grouped with other data prior to your withdrawal request, it may not be possible to remove your child's data**.

The document present participation as "completely voluntary" despite relying on an opt-out rather than an opt-in model. This raised logistical concerns among parents, with one noting they only discovered through questioning that opted-out children would wear stickers, leaving it unclear if they would still be filmed. Addressing these concerns, University of Washington News assistant director Jackson Holtz clarified that a single family's decision to opt out would actually exclude their entire classroom from the research. Ultimately, Holtz stated that this initial outreach was designed to gauge parent sentiment on AI, and based on the early negative feedback received, the university has entirely terminated the study and is notifying all participating sites. The university had taken down the section of its website describing the study, After 404 Media contacted them for comment.

Leak Source: 404 Media.

Invidious link

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VPN provider Windscribe has warned it will relocate its headquarters if Canada passes the controversial Bill C-22. Joining secure messaging app Signal, the company says the proposed surveillance law threatens the "entire essence" of user privacy.

The NHS is granting staff from companies including Palantir ‘unlimited access’ to identifiable patient data while working on its FDP.

In the latest episode of "they will always sell you out" - they sold you out! Who would've thought.

Hoping for a good alternative client to appear, the writing is on the wall. Vaultwarden can't exist without "leeching" off of Bitwarden.

Fauxx is an open-source Android privacy tool that poisons data broker and ad-tech profiles by generating continuous, plausible, off-demographic synthetic activity from your device. The goal is simple: make your real behavioral signal statistically indistinguishable from noise.

Not my project, but though this is really cool and worth sharing.

If you have any feedback, feel free to post it.

Even if an employer doesn't require the new ID, remember the UK government said that all IDs will soon have to be verified digitally. That suggests the employer will send the ID image or data to a government server which will respond with whether the person is allowed to work. So all IDs will essentially be turned into digital IDs and the government can make individuals unemployable if they do something the government doesn't like.

I spent some time trying to get this to work so I thought I might as well share it if anyone is interested.

First create a new network: $ podman network create gluetun, then create a new container file:

$ touch ~/.config/containers/systemd/gluetun.container

Populate it with the VPN configuration, below is an example using Proton.

[Unit]
Description=Gluetun VPN Client
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
After=local-fs.target

[Container]
Network=gluetun
Image=docker.io/qmcgaw/gluetun
ContainerName=gluetun
AutoUpdate=registry

AddCapability=NET_ADMIN
AddCapability=NET_RAW
PodmanArgs=--device=/dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun --privileged

Environment=VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=protonvpn
Environment=VPN_TYPE=wireguard
Environment=WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=
Environment=VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=off
Environment=PORT_FORWARD_ONLY=off
Environment=SERVER_COUNTRIES=

[Service]
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target default.target

Reload the systemd daemons and run the container.

$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
$ systemctl --user start gluetun

Then create a distrobox-assemble ini file:

[fedora]
additional_packages="brave-browser"
pre_init_hooks="dnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.repo"
init=false
image="registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:latest"
nvidia=false
pull=true
root=false
replace=true
start_now=true
unshare_netns=true
additional_flags="--network container:gluetun"

Feel free to replace Brave with something else. Then create it, enter it and run the browser:

$ distrobox-assemble create --file /path/to/file.ini
$ distrobox enter fedora
$ brave-browser

If you have any suggestions on how to improve this setup I'd love to hear them!

OC by @electrochemistry@lemmy.dbzer0.com

With paid developers gone and only volunteers remaining, the app has until July 8 to secure funding or fade into irrelevance.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/52903710

Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?

Genuine questions. I'm assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?

Linked article about a lawsuit in California. AI was used to transcribe conversations between patients and drs. Audio is sent to the cloud for processing. This is becoming very common in healthcare now. Some sources say 80% of physicians in the US and Canada use these.

They aren't suing under HIPAA. Rather, under some California state laws.

Company says it is HIPAA compliant. That's prob true. They prob also make a good faith effort to protect the data. But it is impossible.

This event happened in Ontario. An AI transcriber breached confidental pt data, inc diagnoses, treatment notes, etc.

AI bot sends confidential info to Ontario hospital patients after recording doctors’ meeting

Even with the best intentions, there are endless breaches from electronic health data systems.

Also. Merely knowing your convo between you and your dr is recorded can change how honest ppl will be with their dr. You prob trust your dr. But when everything you say them is recorded, you may not trust what happens after that.

Fortunately most drs will let pts opt out of these, if you ask.

A reminder to leave a negative review for the apps that force you to use google play services or completely don't work on custom android ROM's.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart_id This was the app. A lot of banks use it here in Lithuania for logging in, confirming transactions.

Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. We can’t rely on tech oligarchs to save us, especially when these same companies and governments are the ones to sever our access to the internet and telecommunications. This is why it's important to set up communication mechanisms before a disaster happens.