In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 09:06:46 on
Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> writes
>A colleague in Germany showed me this yesterday:
>
>http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090623-20151.html
>
>A synopsis is "A German teacher who had sued to shut down a website
>where pupils rank their instructors according to competence and
>"coolness" lost her battle in court Tuesday."
>
>This led me to thinking - unusual enough, I hear you cry!
>
>As a student I had appalling teachers surrounding a very few excellent
>ones. Rating them might have brought standards up.
>
>As a DP person I am concerned about the breach of the teacher's
>privacy, but am also not 100% sure that privacy is breached.
>
>As a member of the public I use (eg) tripadvisor to rate hotels I've
>stayed in (some of which are sole traders0 without a second thought.
>
>How much of a DP minefield is this area
This was the issue I brought up a couple of weeks ago when I asked about
ratemyteachers.com
I got a couple of replies off-list.
I also went to see a senior privacy lawyer (I had a number of questions
to ask) and he didn't think there was a generic DPA solution to this,
but action could be taken in specific cases if there was harassment or
serious invasion of privacy [going beyond identifying where a teacher
works, which some people assume is public information].
--
Roland Perry
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