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Moreover, from the now-disabled University website, it took under a minute to produce the ID number and e-mail address of a student who told The Crimson he had been granted security status at Harvard under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) because his family is prominent in international politics...
...student contacts their Registrar and requests total privacy under FERPA, this FERPA status...must also [be] recorded in the central directory system,” wrote Jane E. Hill, Harvard’s Directory Services project manager, in an e-mail...
...FERPA legally requires universities not to disclose or verify directory information, including names and e-mail addresses, of individuals with a secure flag, except as required for specific educational purposes. This protection is used both by “publicity-shy” celebrities and for students who “are legitimately terrified of some potentially harmful person—a woman trying to disappear from a stalker, for example,” wrote former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 in an e-mail...
...allows people to design and conduct surveys, enabled anyone—with or without Harvard affiliation—to search the entire Harvard directory by first or last name, e-mail address or Harvard ID number. Unlike other campus directories, the system did not hide users who have requested FERPA security from the University, or respect other user-set restrictions on the distribution of their directory data...
Susan Rogers, project manager for iCommons, was surprised when The Crimson demonstrated the technique for looking up a FERPA protected student’s information, though she had previously planned to remove the search by ID number feature...