The National Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority is launching an investigation after István Tényi filed a public interest report with the agency to find out whether the students who did not participate in one of the teachers' protests were listed at Trefort Ágoston High School in Budapest.
According to the PestiSrácok.hu source, who asked to remain anonymous, the students who did not participate in the teachers' strike connected with the live chain in October were listed and publicly shamed at Trefort High School. Anna Komjáthy, a member of the board of the Democratic Union of Teachers, which organized the protest, stated that she thinks it is possible to list the students who were left out of the demonstration, but according to her, this can only be done for surveillance purposes. The PDSZ board member also admitted that parents were specifically asked by the teachers participating in the demonstration to find out about the events taking place in the schools on the PDSZ Facebook page. In other words, the liberal lobby group practically puts pressure on both students and parents.
Zoltán Csapodi, the director of Trefort, previously denied the fact of the listing.
He claims that a class teacher could at most make a list that included the list of absentees, because only those who did not show up for class, certified by their parents, could participate in the live chain of students. The head of the school added: Any kind of gender listing and shaming should not have happened since the 150 years of our school's existence, and I, as a director in office for the ninth year, would not tolerate such a thing.
At the same time, Zoltán Csapodi considers it conceivable that the students could have argued among themselves about the situation.
It is a fact that the anonymous inquiry received by Pestisrácok.hu about public shaming did not necessarily refer to teachers; it is possible that the students could rank and list among themselves those of their peers who did not want to participate in the live stream and later in the "festival-like" demonstration.
According to the laws in force, personal data can be processed if the data subject consents to it, or it is ordered by law or on the basis of the authority of the law, within the scope defined therein, for example a local government decree for a purpose based on the public interest. According to István Tényi, in this case it is necessary to investigate whether there is a possibility of illegal data collection.
Source: Pest Boys
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