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To: David Willetts - The Minister for Universities

Stop UCAS selling PRIVATE DETAILS of applicants to advertisers.

Prevent the unconsented selling of candidates' private details through UCAS- the ONLY way to apply to HE courses.

Why is this important?

Immoral! Not acceptable! Making money from this action. It's not their info to share, is it?

"Access to the data of more than a million teenagers and students and thousands of their parents is being sold to advertisers such as mobile phone and energy drinks companies by Ucas, the university applications body.

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service received more than £12m last year in return for sending targeted advertising to subscribers as young as 16."

Have a read of this for further details:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/12/ucas-sells-marketing-access-student-data-advertisers

More on David Willetts here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-willetts

How it will be delivered

Email, possibly deliver them in person.

Category

Updates

2014-04-30 12:27:10 +0100

25 signatures reached

2014-03-25 00:37:08 +0000

Let's see if we can reach 50 by Wednesday lunch, 100 by Friday teatime! C'mon folks, let's make a difference. It's so worth it...

2014-03-25 00:35:13 +0000

The target of the petition should be David Willets MP, who's the minister for universities:
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-willetts
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/12/ucas-sells-marketing-access-student-data-advertisers

2014-03-23 02:14:25 +0000

Thanks to those of you who have already signed. Fab! Keep spreading it. Huge differences CAN be made when our voices join as one.

2014-03-22 21:30:04 +0000

10 signatures reached