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Basically, I'm making a website which requires you to verify that you are a Student (at a College) before you can fully register to use the website.
Facebook (or Connect-U) came up with the bright idea of requiring you to verify your College e-mail address (well, school, whatever specifically).
What would the best way of verifying a student attends a College without being able to directly access Student Data stored on College Systems? Is there any legal way at all? This isn't entirely a legal concern, but I can't really find a more sufficient forum for this topic, and seeing as it has a legal element to it...
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Posted 27 November 2010 - 03:51 AM
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A great way is to verify by domain names of their emails, such as requiring them to sign up with it. An example: my signup email address may be:
Generally student e-mails are a must and also drop after their college term, so you can assume it atleast is recently valid.
alex@students.columbia.eduThus: you could assume I am from the University of Columbia.
Generally student e-mails are a must and also drop after their college term, so you can assume it atleast is recently valid.
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Posted 27 November 2010 - 05:31 AM
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Nullw0rm said:
A great way is to verify by domain names of their emails, such as requiring them to sign up with it. An example: my signup email address may be:
Generally student e-mails are a must and also drop after their college term, so you can assume it atleast is recently valid.
alex@students.columbia.eduThus: you could assume I am from the University of Columbia.
Generally student e-mails are a must and also drop after their college term, so you can assume it atleast is recently valid.
I was thinking that, but isn't that a part of how the Connect-U vs. Facebook controversy started? This is a current college project (as well as a personal project) so I can't violate any copyright laws, etc.
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Posted 27 November 2010 - 05:47 AM
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Calgon said:
I was thinking that, but isn't that a part of how the Connect-U vs. Facebook controversy started? This is a current college project (as well as a personal project) so I can't violate any copyright laws, etc.
This is where what falls in to fair use: A small snippet of original creation not facilitated of a copyrighted system or original submitted content. Thus, matching against a domain is OK, using a "School verification system by means of matching user personal information collected against a database of schools" -- is not.
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Posted 27 November 2010 - 05:49 AM
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Nullw0rm said:
This is where what falls in to fair use: A small snippet of original creation not facilitated of a copyrighted system or content. Thus, matching against a domain is OK, using a "School verification system by means of matching user personal information collected against a database of schools" -- is not.
Thanks for the advice.
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