The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) may sound familiar to many employees and students at UC Davis. For students, FERPA is one of several privacy laws that protect their information and provides important data privacy rights. For employees, FERPA is one of many requirements that helps UC Davis ensure it takes measures to protect student information. Even if you are not familiar with FERPA, we have many resources to keep you informed. To begin with, here are some FERPA basics:

Location data, specifically data relating to “sensitive locations,” has recently become a hot topic in the privacy world. Following the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) actions against data broker companies, it has become clear that the collection and selling of location data will be subject to more stringent restrictions.