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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Queensland's OneSchool in the spotlight
The story in the Courier Mail doesn't quite match the headline "Backflip over OneSchool online student database"- one school principal cold on some aspects does not a backflip make- but there are signs of concern and some rumblings of discontent in Queensland about the inclusion of photographs and other details, and the privacy implications associated with the collection,use and disclosure of this type of information, once the project received wide publicity.
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