Can you answer this question?
- Can a school’s administration share the parents’ email addresses with its teachers?
The assumption is, of course, that the teachers want to contact the parents re the students’ education, and not for selling them encyclopedias.
I guess the answer depends on where you live.
In Spain there is a law from 1999 called Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal.
Some excerpts:
From article 11:
1. Los datos de carácter personal objeto del tratamiento sólo podrán ser comunicados a un tercero para el cumplimiento de fines directamente relacionados con las funciones legítimas del cedente y del cesionario con el previo consentimiento del interesado.
2. El consentimiento exigido en el apartado anterior no será preciso:
… b) Cuando se trate de datos recogidos de fuentes accesibles al público. …
From article 12:
1. No se considerará comunicación de datos el acceso de un tercero a los datos cuando dicho acceso sea necesario para la prestación de un servicio al responsable del tratamiento.
I am not a lawyer, neither totally proficient in Spanish (and less so in legal Spanish), but this is what I conclude:
“The teachers can receive the email addresses of parents if they are needed for them to do their job.”
If that interpretation is correct, one may go on to discuss who decides if emails are necessary or not for a teacher to do his job.
Please post your view on this in a comment below.
