FERPA

Regulation United States · 1974

FERPA is the United States statute governing the privacy of student education records. It gives parents, and students once they turn eighteen, the right to inspect and seek correction of those records, and it restricts disclosure without consent — with exceptions for school officials with a legitimate educational interest, and for vendors operating under the school official exception.

Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them generally fall outside it.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

Regions

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.