The rules of privacy for the website of a school
A website on the Internet can be read all over the world by anyone who has access to the Internet, by good guys and bad guys. Therefore it is important that a website of a school protects the privacy of all people involved. Part of this protection is that information is not published without consent.
These are general rules. How to implement those rules is sometimes not easy. So many things happen at a school: exams, excursions, parties, projects. And it is so easy to take pictures and publish them together with names, e-mail addresses and other personal details. For instance it is not good to publish worldwide the marks of each student. But this weekend, newspapers like the New Vision and The Monitor published articles about the 2006 O'level results with the marks, the names and personal stories of the best students. So it seems there is another rule: good news can be published in more detail than not so good news.
