LERNSIEG - Deleting profile
LERNSIEG - Deleting profile
A new app has been making a name for itself in the last few days: LERNSIEG includes the function of creating profiles of schools and teachers online , thus exposing them to public evaluation by students. The company behind it hopes to earn money through advertising revenue thanks to generateed clicks and app visits. Many teachers are right to ask: How can I prevent this interference with my privacy?
Teachers are first of all: private individuals
You don't become a teacher to stand in the spotlight or generate online discussions and receive ratings. Teachers are primarily private individuals that work for a company. After their challenging job is done, most teachers want to enjoy their privacy without being interrupted. Few of them expected to stand in the spotlight when they started their teaching assignment.
Transparent schools?
The thought behind the app according to the creaters was to create a "transparent school". That is where they are clearly wrong: schools are not open to the public, but with goog reason, places where knowledge can be imparted without any disturbances. People that are not known by the school do not have access to its premises. A third party is not allowed to take part in the lessons, unless the director grants them permission.
In this day and age "transparency" is an important value. However transparency can also be harmful in certain areas: especially in places, where there is a bond of trust, the eyes of the strangers can cloud trust, as people by nature are afraid of criticism. Even more so when this happens in public.
Protection of privacy in schools
Especially in schools there is a unique bond of trust between teachers and students. That is why only limited data about schools is made public. Grading has been classified for quite some time. This is to avoid exposing the students to ridicule. Not only students need their privacy to be protected to enable an uncoerced learning atmosphere. The same goes for teachers.
Personal data is protected
In its privacy policy, LERNSIEG claims to handle the data of teachers for valid reasons.
However, personal data such as the name of person are strongly protected. It is all to clear that LERNSIEG handles the names of teachers to generate clicks and thereby sell advertising. No additional benefit for teaching arise, but instead a risk of permanently destroying the bond of trust between students and teachers surfaces. A valid interest is hard to justify.
One cannot forget that releasing the name of teaher in connection to the rating, especially a bad an unjustified- without doubt strongly violates the personal privacy. Being marked as a poor teacher in public, significantly influences the average teacher in the way they live their life. You can only truly understand that when you yourself become the victim of an unjustified poor rating. Our clients often report about sleepless nights, troubles concentrating, tied to such ratings.
Our offer: we demand the deletion of the profile
We have expertise in defending the right of privacy and data protection of our clients and will therefore fight for the deletion of your profile on LERNSIEG. If there are individual, unjustified bad reviews, we can also fight for the deletion of individual reviews if you would like to keep the rest of your profile online.
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