GDPR Prevents Schools From Sharing Classmate Names, Draws Criticism

You can't out-parody the European ability to turn a sliver of a good intention into a mad monster of bureaucratic insanity.

@fosron Much of the EU is the embodiment of "the road to hell is paved by good intentions". Or, as Sowell puts it: Replacing things that work with things that sound good.

@dhh Alot of people are either using GDPR as a shade to hide things, or are too afraid for the wrath that might come, although in most cases they are just uninformed on how it works. The law in itself is good, but the implementation is lacking.

@dhh These kinds of misinterpretations of GDPR is incredibly common. Becoming a business owner just made that abundantly clear

@dhh Yes, I cannot imagine that. Why should they give out personal information of children to random people. That's crazy. I am sorry.

@dhh "Due to every other classmate being named Mohammed and Ahmed, we cannot share their names due to GDPR. Please note all children may bring their Pride flags tomorrow, as it is the beginning of pride month! Happy weekend!"

@richardslater THIS ONLY MAKES IT WORSE!! The insane concept that you need affirmative consent for your classmates to have your name? What the flying fuck. The GDPR is a parody of bureacrazy.

@dhh Yeah "Europeanly wrong" is a term now isn't it

@dhh does legitimate interest not cover basic class coordination here

@dhh In the daycare at one of my friends’ kids they are not allowed to have names on the kids wardrobe spots or anywhere else citing data security /GDPR concerns. I wish I was kidding.

@i_am_fabs You can't imagine that your kid's name would be known by their classmates before they start school? 😂

@dhh How do they take the register each day

@dhh Why is that a thing you would need to know?

Also, why is that a thing you would expect to already be set?

@dhh Seems off, I've attended classes since GDPR came into effect, some on data protection, there was simply a checkbox that read "I consent to my name and email address being shared with students in my class". To the best of my knowledge everyone was okay with that.

@dhh The best regulations solve problems. The worst ones create new ones. 🤷

@dhh I live in Germany and one day wanted to take a picture of a paper hanging on a board listing what kids needed for a school trip

I was yelled for doing that so I asked for a pen and paper and wrote it down

can't make this shit up

@dhh Fair. Still, i feel safer with mostly working rather than wild wild west of corporations.

@dhh Clearly there is no part of GDPR that prevents this. Just people who can't read legal. At best this post is a call to action for lawmakers to write less confusing language

@dhh The only one you need to know is Little Bobby Tables.

@dhh A lot of this stuff is laziness as well. I worked at a school where this stuff was going on, where someone toutes, is this up to GDPR code, and because they don't wanna risk it/figure it out, they just claim it isn't allowed and call it a day.