Student Failed To Get Parental Permission For Photos

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Student Failed To Get Parental Permission For Photos

Post by Learner » Sat Jul 04, 2015 12:30 pm

Hi All,

A child care educator was undergoing an industrial diploma course arranged by the employer (Child care centre). The training provider was giving work based assignments for which she was asked to submit photographic evidence of completion. Student educator provided children activity group picture(4 indirect pictures) with pretended name. She failed to obtain parents consent as those pictures were old.

Does this constitute an offence under Victorian privacy legislation or any other law of the land?

Thanks
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Re: Student Failed To Get Parental Permission For Photos

Post by Lorina » Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:46 am

Yeah, the student should of obtained permission even if the images were old. I think it falls under the Privacy Act:

Privacy Act

If the student blurs each of the children's face in the photo then I think it's fine...

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