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Concern about the private information of students and families being improperly disclosed.
by glloydell 7y ago
Concern about the private information of students and families being improperly disclosed.
- duxup 7y agoTheir email addresses?
- glloydell 7y agoIt's indicative of poor data privacy practices, as is the failure to remove someone who shouldn't have a access to the information being sent in the emails.
- glloydell 7y agohttps://www.dol.gov/general/ppii https://www.dol.gov/general/ppii "PII is defined as information: (i) that directly identifies an individual (e.g., name, address, social security number or other identifying number or code, telephone number, email address"
- duxup 7y agoAre you sure that's always the case? School groups for my kids actually share that information as a way for parents to contact each other. I'm not certain that we can say that any given email list is required to be private.
- glloydell 7y agoIt's not always the case to be sure, but I'd argue that there's a large difference between making the intentional choice to share information and accidentally disclosing it to unintended parties.
- 0xdeadb00f 7y agoHe was able to obtain a lot of personal information from those email addresses wasn't he?