I think this may have come up before but do you agree that postive consent is required from parents? There is a project planning to do this for the purposes of producing teacher training material and the team want to rely on informing the parents and relying on objections being raised via an 'opt out'. I do not feel it is good enough to rely on an 'opt out' in this situation. Do you agree? Gail Waters DP Coordinator Open University ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - www.jiscmail.ac.uk/user-manual/summary-user-commands.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^