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Can I sue Callie Oettinger?
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Anonymous
There were details about children, including their advocates and attorneys. No parents gave consent for that info to be released. I can’t believe you’re defending this POS. |
Anonymous
No. I just know how technology works. 
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Anonymous
DP. She absolutely took advantage of the lack of data security. She still has the files and is using them for her own purposes. Without the consent of the families. Organizations are a problem. As are individuals like Callie. |
Anonymous
| FCPS sped services have been a disaster, I don't know how anyone can defend them. More people like Callie are needed to expose the illegal denial of services and reimbursements |
Anonymous
As a parent involved in my kids’ schools, I see other parents abuse teachers on many occasions. Leave the teachers alone. Don’t use info from other families without their consent. |
Anonymous
If she wants to rally up other parents to do this, great. Get their consent. She should not be exploiting other families’ personal details without their consent and for her own purposes. It’s abhorrent. |
Anonymous
This is correct. Callie already won a lawsuit against fcps for this very reason and with their souped up security to ensure a repeat didn’t occur, they voluntarily let her walk out with 35,000 times the amount of students data than she requested. Come on! If I were in charge of fcps, the buck would have stopped with me. I would have checked that data over myself after 10 other experts had already reviewed it. Never ever should have happened. |
Anonymous
What is she exploiting, can someone explain, all the documents and posts I've seen are her talking about high level concerns at the school and regional level that dont name anyone specific. |
Anonymous
If fcps wants to get billions of funding along with that should be security controls and procedures of PII like the way FOUO information is controlled in the federal government. I hope DHS CISA steps in to enforce here as they often will for commercial entities with poor security controls on pii |
Anonymous
That’s it! The children’s names they say are popping up are attorneys!!! It’s a great twist on words as technically accurate. Attorneys all have parents, and are someone’s kids. So technically not lying, but highly misleading. |
Anonymous
Or take the billions they already have and use them more wisely. That’s what I do in my household. |
Anonymous
I think there can be both. Better protection--and mandated support/resources on how to provide that protection from a data governance body that somehow shares responsibility when smaller public organizations like school systems make mistakes. I personally think it's a recipe for failure to ask every school system to do this well--they need a higher level organization to manage data, FOIA request etc. People who really understand the technology and the laws--not whatever paralegal/IT person a school happens to have. At the same time, there are models of requiring security on both ends. If a bank adds an extra 0 onto your digital deposit, you don't get to keep that money because it was their mistake. If you receive classified government information by access, it doesn't magically become your personal goldmine without consequences. We need to be thinking about these things with other private data--because while most parents if they received data like this, they would likely instantly return the data--and hopefully also file a FERPA complaint with the state and Department of Ed. But we're seeing now that some parents would decide to keep that data, look through it and share it with others as they see fit. Not to mention potential others who would use it for worse ends. We need clarity on what are the responsibility of our citizens who mistakenly receive private data. |
Anonymous
Editing: should read "by mistake" |
Anonymous
That she read the data herself is misusing--and immoral--in my opinion. And the issue with the partial redaction is that this how people piece things together: For instance, the attorney's name, in conjunction with the school and the dates can be revealing to local contexts--it's not like many kids in an elementary school have an attorney on their case in any given month of a year. So of all the parents who use a search term for their school on her site to see if their data is there, I'm guessing some may know who that kid is--and now they know more private things like how much was spent on their treatment. This is the thing--blacking out kid's name doesn't make them unidentifiable--and a parent may have shared one bit of information, like recommend the attorney they used to another parent--that now gives that other parent more information than the original parent meant to share. Oettinger seems to be taking risks with other people's children's private data in posting these things. |
Anonymous
Good questions |