In the midst of a pandemic, Big Tech is trying to enrich itself and invade our children’s privacy through new and untested online proctoring services. By scanning our children’s faces, IDs, and even their bedrooms, these online proctoring companies promise to end cheating forever. The choice is clear: surveillance has no place in our children’s lives. The Department of Education must protect kids’ privacy by banning private online test proctoring companies from K-12 schools. Online proctoring companies do exactly what they advertise to do: they collect invasive amounts of sensitive, private information, use new and untested technology to determine a child’s integrity, and create a permanent record of their behavior in their servers. By fudging the line between security and privacy, these firms are turning classrooms into a privacy threat. My first interaction with an online proctoring service was when I tried to take an online exam this past spring quarter. Within minutes, it was clear to me that this software had no place in the classroom. First, it asked my name, and then for government ID, and then to scan my face and retinas. As if that wasn’t enough, a company I had never heard of asked me to photograph my room, and that’s when I knew that this isn’t security software -- it’s straight-up spyware. Students aren’t criminals, and we shouldn’t be treated as such. It’s obvious that these services are dangerous in a college setting, but imagine how much worse it would be if they penetrated K-12 schools. Children would be forced to share mountains of sensitive, personal information with no oversight as to how it will affect their futures, including: - Biometric data like facial images, retina scans, and fingerprints - Citizenship status - Gender identity and expression - Weight, health conditions, and mental and physical disabilities - Online browsing history, internet searches, and interactions This technology is invasive for students of all ages, but especially inappropriate for kids under 18. Parents and children will be at the mercy of shadowy firms to determine their academic integrity, generating profiles for every child using invasive amounts of private information. If enough students and parents fight back against this move towards mass surveillance of young children, we can hold these companies accountable and protect kids’ privacy. Tell Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education: no more mass surveillance of children. Ban private online test proctoring companies from K-12 schools.

Distance learning is hard enough, but for 9 million kids without reliable internet access, remote school is nearly impossible. AT&T, one of the largest internet providers in the U.S, had been offering low-cost, high-speed internet to families at $10/month - but the waiver expires September 30, just as the school year is ramping up.

Because covid-19 is still rampant and warehouse workers do not have everything we need and are expected to show up everyday

This is a very important matter that appeals to the voice of the athletes that prepared for the last 8 months for this season. Let the players decide.

The support will help reduce the pressure on USPS due to the current financial and technical challenges from the new policies. Support will also reduce the populations fear of vote by mail, thus, minimize voter suppression. Lastly, voting by mail helps to reduce the risk of spreading the COVID-19 virus by minimizing the number of people (especially, our seniors) having to go to the polls to vote.

Need strong leadership to effectively lead the Big 10 at a time when the present leadership is weak, inefficient and basically of no effect.

Show your support and approval of the post office and postal workers both financially and morally. Post office employees are under tremendous stress and a movement to snow we FOREVER support them and the post office would give their spirit a lift as well; as improving the financial picture of the USPS.

Every citizen has the right to vote. With the Republicans sabotaging the Post Office and casting doubt upon its ability to deliver the absentee ballots, we citizens should be able to rely on certified individuals to pick up the ballots of those who cannot vote in person and bring in the votes. In states like Alabama that are closing down polls, using intimidation on voters who show up, and making citizens travel for long distances to get to the polls this can be the answer. We must mobilize quickly. Lets all help to get in the vote!!! We can do this! We can protect our democracy with a new American citizen Pony Express!

Trump is trying to starve the Post Office to swing the election

Shortly following the announcement of Kamala Harris as Biden’s running mate. Newsweek ran an article by John Eastman questioning Harris’ natural citizenship and eligibility to be vice president. Immediately, this sparked outrage as many called this out for what it is: the latest in the constant attacks against people of color questioning their citizenship, patriotism and American-ness There is no question that Kamala Harris, an American citizen born in Oakland, California, is eligible to be vice president of the United States. It shouldn’t require affirmation. But evidently Newsweek needs to be told to assert this clear fact. Instead of retracting Eastman’s false claims following an outpouring of outrage from its readers, Newsweek doubled down on its failures and published an editorial denying the racist and birtherist nature of the attacks. Newsweek writes in its editorial, “No one is questioning Harris' place of birth or the legitimacy of an obviously valid birth certificate.” In fact, Eastman’s article is titled, “Some questions for Kamala about eligibility.” It is reprehensible for Newsweek to publish such hateful vitriol, and to provide a platform for harmful conspiracy theories hurled at people of color. Newsweek’s deplorable decision is particularly troubling given the xenophobic and racist climate in the United States, further fueling racist attacks on America’s first Black woman to run for the office of Vice President. Eastman’s claims are false and fail to uphold the Constitution as it has been understood in policy and practice. Newsweek attempts to defend its choice by stating, “leading law schools have long entertained debates between competing scholars about the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause.” Newsweek is not a legal publication, nor are its readers largely Constitutional scholars. It is a mainstream publication that is giving the space and platform for Eastman to make racist and birtherist attacks on Harris as a Black Indian woman. Newsweek must retract its editorial, denounce the racist conspiracy theories at the heart of Eastman’s article, and give them no space in their pages.

To hopefully put "Newsweek" out of business.

It is an important safety issue for our students.