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...says that measures taken by the Office of General Counsel (OGC) ensure that student privacy is maintained.“There is a very strong contract which OGC and Mail2World spent months drafting, and it addresses specifically issues of security, issues of ownership of data, issues of FERPA, issues of DMCA notices,” he says, referring to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. “We want to make sure that the experience of the student is the same in terms of the protection they received under our systems...
...Complex laws including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) allow for nonconsensual disclosure during health or safety emergencies, but schools are far from certain about when these exemptions apply. "I don't think there's a campus in America that hasn't sat down and asked themselves, 'What does FERPA really say?'" says Peter Lake, an expert on higher education law at Florida's Stetson University...
...appropriate fashion. "The bottom line is that administrators and clinicians have much more discretion than they may believe with regard to sharing information," says Dr. Paul Appelbaum, director of the Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Although schools have read and re-read FERPA ad nauseam this summer, Appelbaum says he wants clear-cut guidelines from the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. "Otherwise," he says, "we are likely to continue to see divergent interpretations on different campuses, often driven by concerns over liability and fueled by continued misunderstanding...
Gene Madden, associate director for information services at the Office of Risk Management and Audit Services, says that the audit is proceeding in priority order, addressing the most serious issues, such as noncompliance with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations first. The audit also aims to stamp out the use of nonsecure items such as birthdays, social security numbers, and last names as passwords...
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), students can request that the registrar put a security lock on their account, preventing the University from disclosing their directory information to the public. FERPA-secured students’ e-mail addresses were available in the iCommons Poll Tool...