The Ministry of Education and Science is going to create a database of academic performance, health and parents 22 million students

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation is developing a bill on the creation of a database with detailed information about students and their parents. It is assumed that information about the performance, health and families of 22 million schoolchildren and students will be available to a wide range of federal departments, regional and municipal authorities.

The draft law, which provides for amendments to the laws "On Education" and "On Guardianship", is published on the Unified portal of legal information. As indicated in the accompanying documents, a change in legislation is necessary for the "creation and functioning of the unified federal interdepartmental system for accounting for the contingent of students in basic educational programs and additional general educational programs." It is assumed that the personal data of students in the database will be regional and municipal structures, and the Ministry of Education and Science will carry out the "methodological and methodological support of the system." The public discussion of the bill will continue until August 24, and the planned period for the entry of the normative act by force is on September 1, 2015.

As Kommersant notes, the project involves a significant expansion of the circle of departments that have the right to collect, process and store personal data of students. So, the list includes the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labor, tax and pension authorities, municipal and regional educational structures. The collection of information will be carried out in accordance with the order of the government on the creation of the "Unified Federal Interdepartmental System for Accounting for the Competition of Students."

Data on children, as suggested in the Ministry of Education and Science, must fall into the base from the moment of birth. In the personal file, information about educational institutions and academic performance, victories in competitions, olympiads, etc. In addition, the database should contain information about the student’s health, as well as information about parents and the situation in the family. Given the fact that 14 million people are studying in Russian schools, 2.8 million in colleges and technical schools, 5.6 million in universities, then without taking into account parents, the database should contain information about 22 million citizens.

How much a person will receive access to the database is unknown

Recall that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev justed the need to unify and collect data on students: “It is known that the educational process significantly affects factors such as the state of health, future socialization and professional success of students. This information is necessary for bodies when making managerial decisions, parents and students engaged in educational activities. At the same time, the problem is not only obtained by obtaining these Data from another department, but also the connection of health data with data on students and their stages of training.

According to the prime minister, the new system should increase the effectiveness of state and municipal management in the field of education, influence the quality of the provision of state and municipal services in electronic form in the educational field and ensure the transition to a qualitatively different level of work of information systems in the field of education, healthcare, and social support.

Komsomolskaya Pravda compared the discontent caused in society to the government’s intention to create a similar database, with a cartoon about a goat who can count up to ten, and passengers of a boat, which almost drowned from the overload. The publication noted that fears about the vulnerability of the system should not serve as the basis for the refusal of collecting information - after all, the huts wandered into the secret databases of the Pentagon. As for health information, the benefits of the fact that the necessary information at any time will be available to students, doctors and employees of the selection committee, should “surpass” all costs and other considerations.

It should be noted that the documents of the government and the Ministry of Education do not even contain approximate information about how much a person will eventually receive access to the database and how the issue of unlawful use of information about students, especially minors, will be regulated.

Information leaks and hacker attacks have already occurred

At the same time, schools have already encountered problems related to the imperfection of legislation on the protection of personal data. In particular, in the fall of 2014, the heads of more than two thousand schools, kindergartens, boarding schools, etc. were punished for publications on the website of educational institutions of children's lists, while Izvestia indicated, the consent of the children and parents themselves was not taken into account. Lists of the winners of the Olympiads and competitions were even banned, which gave rise to assumptions about the imminent appearance of messages in the spirit of "One Boy ran 100 meters in such and such a time," without specifying surnames.

Another problem, wrote Fontanka with reference to the acting The heads of Rosobrnadzor, Anzor Muzayev, arose in connection with the procedure for passing and checking the results of the exam. Under the current legislation, a graduate has the right to prohibit disclosing his personal data. In this case, the registration form does not indicate the details of the passport and other document, and all accompanying papers are filled out by hand. The results of the exam are transmitted in a closed envelope, information about the scored points is not introduced into the information systems. However, such anonymity prevents the verification of the reliability of information about the results of the exam during admission.

The Ministry of Education and Science is not ready to protect information about students, Burmatov believes

Questions arose in connection with mass leaks to open access of personal data, caused, as expected, insufficient security of electronic diaries and magazines. The First Deputy Head of the Duma Committee on Education Vladimir Burmatov in a comment on the eve accused the Ministry of Education and Science of the inability to ensure the safety of personal data of Russian schoolchildren. "The fact that experts claim that there are at least 500 sites that violate the law on personal data, post and distribute the personal data of children and their parents in the public domain, suggests that the department of Mr. Livanov took clearly insufficient measures in this area," the parliamentarian said.

"In my opinion, the Ministry of Education did not provide for the possibility of the emergence of those problems that are related to the protection of personal data of students, which is why the situation arose with the advent of sites that openly dissemin the information about personal data of students and their parents. To date, the actions of the department in this area are of the nature of a delayed reaction, and those checks that are organized at the moment are not able to solve the problem in the root, but may only in the same It is different to remove its acuteness, ”Burmatov insisted.

The last time the topic of the safety of personal data of students became the subject of wide discussion in December 2014, when the Moscow-analytical system "Moscow Register of Education Quality" ("Electronic Student Diary") was subjected to a powerful DDOS-Atak. The attack lasted from 17 to December 24.