May 7, 2004
Students Can Electronically Authorize Release of Personal Data, Education Dept. Says
The U.S. Department of Education is reinterpreting a privacy law so that students can consent online to the release of transcripts and other personal data.
Under the law, known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa, colleges have been barred from circulating personal data about a student without his or her handwritten signature. But many colleges have been letting students electronically authorize the release of personal data.
Some college students, for
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