[ILUG] Does www.RateMyTeacher.IE meet criteria of Data Protection Act.

[John Moylan]

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IANAL, and I don't know the site...but Ireland has pretty strict
defamation laws....

J

Owen Connolly wrote:
| I think what you're looking for is http://www.dataprivacy.ie/...
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| As Dave said, this is a linux discussion list
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| Owen J Connolly
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| Eircom - Carroll wrote:
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|> I am interested in the views of this informed group on the web site
|> www.RateMyTeacher.IE, specifically regarding the Data Protection Act.
|>
|> This site names and rates teachers - ostensibly from comments from
|> pupils and their parents - from 1 (poor) to 5 (good). It also has an
|> additional COMMENTS field, used to offer such pearls as...
|>  'Needs to learn to relax and stop cracking the same old "jokes".Good
|>  because she gets the top students not because she inspires them.'.
|> ...or...
|>  'one of the most sad people i have ever met. Has a bad attitude
|>  toward students and will live a long and lonley life.'
|>
|> The site also features a "Wall of Shame" that names schools firewalling
|> access to this site.
|>
|> In my forties, I joined opened an account as an unidentifiable 14-year
|> old using a friends PC and was immediately capable of sullying any
|> teacher's, or schools reputation.
|>
|> Can a commercial site offering such "facilities" against clearly
|> identifiable individuals, by persons anonymous, be legal?
|>
|> Yours, etc,
|> C O'Donoghue.
|>
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