FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
The federal law that protects the privacy of student education records and gives parents (and students at 18) rights to see and correct them.
- Stands for
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Used in
- United States
- Topic
- Policy and law
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Related terms
- COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) United States
- The federal law that limits how online services collect personal information from children under 13.
- UK GDPR (UK General Data Protection Regulation) All four UK nations (details may differ)
- The UK's main data protection law (with the Data Protection Act 2018), which governs how schools collect, use and keep personal data.
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