FERPA Follies
This federal law grants parents the right to access their child's educational records and limits the disclosure of that information without consent.
What is FERPA?
This document outlines how a vendor will safeguard student data when providing services to a school.
What is a data privacy agreement?
This role in a school district is often responsible for overseeing student data privacy compliance.
What is a Data Privacy Officer?
This year FERPA was enacted to protect student education records.
What is 1974?
This law governs the online privacy of children under 13 years old.
What is COPPA?
Schools may disclose "directory information" without consent unless parents do this.
What is opt out?
Apps collecting student data must comply with this law if they are marketed to children under 13.
What is COPPA?
Encryption is a key tool in protecting student data during this process.
What is transmission?
This European regulation has had a significant influence on global data privacy practices, including educational data.
What is GDPR?
FERPA stands for this act that protects student education records.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
FERPA applies to all schools that receive funding from this federal department.
What is the U.S. Department of Education?
Teachers and staff should avoid using this type of tool unless it has been approved by the district.
What is an educational resource?
This type of third-party audit helps confirm that a vendor is meeting their data privacy obligations.
What is a security audit?
This act requires districts to develop policies to protect student data and privacy in the use of educational technology.
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
This U.S. law protects student education records and parental rights to access them.
What is FERPA?
Schools can share education records without consent in this type of situation.
What is an emergency?
Unauthorized access and alteration of educational records through technology is known by this term.
What is hacking?
Schools must have a policy in place to do this when data breaches occur.
What is notifying parents?
Before FERPA, educational records were often seen as this type of property, limiting parental access.
What is the school’s property?
This California law sets strict requirements for companies collecting student data.
What is SOPIPA?
This law requires vendors to publicly disclose how they protect and use student data in California.
What is SOPIPA?
This emerging technology in schools is raising new privacy concerns due to its ability to collect biometric data.
What is facial recognition?