An old school question popped up on my radar again: “Is it ok for schools to collect photo consent only at enrolment (or enrollment for my U.S. friends)?”. Ten years on from the first time I received this question, my advice remains the same – if you do it right the...
There has always been the necessity to ask for consent before taking, sharing, or publishing photos or videos of others, but the simple fact is technology has made many of us less empathetic to the wishes of others before clicking that share button or thinking about...
This year has been really tough and I’m sure we are all counting the days to 2021, yet there is an important topic I’d like to quickly touch on before the New Year – already being labelled the ‘Year of Consent’ – and that is the term meaningful consent. 2020 may have...
With this week being Privacy Awareness Week across Australia, I’d like to share my thoughts on a very important privacy topic – Consent. There has been a lot of press lately on the topic of parents sharing children’s photos online without consent...
I was asked recently to write about this topic for an online publication and it intrigued me to continue the discussion here on LinkedIn as it is a topic that is growing in public interest. Every school has a duty of care to ensure personal information handled about...
