The few privacy laws we do get are usually way off target. It used to be easy to deal with medical things. You could ask about your spouse or parent or sibling

The few privacy laws we do get are usually way off target. It used to be easy to deal with medical things. You could ask about your spouse or parent or sibling, and you would get an answer. Now a family gets treated like random strangers who lack any sort of relationship with each other. It used to be that grades were publicly posted. This was a powerful incentive to do as well as possible.