Describe the requirements of FERPA, CIPA, and COPPA. Assignment Requirements You

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Describe the requirements of FERPA, CIPA, and COPPA.

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You are the systems administrator for a for-profit educational institution. The institution’s library provides Internet access, in particular, to students and their children (while the parents are attending classes). Discuss the requirements of FERPA, CIPA, and COPPA in granting rights to an individual under the First Amendment. In addition, you need to explain why you think these laws should outweigh the special rights related to free speech, keeping the good of society in mind.

Explanation / Answer

1.FERPA-Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act:-

This act namely FERPA provides protection to the confidentiality of student records and also gives the parents to view their children records.Under this act,the school can reveal the information of the student like name,address,phone number,rank etc.

In this FERPA act,the school will not divulge the private information of the student like student ID,behaviour of the student other than the teacher or the parent etc.They can keep open other activities of children like photos of competitions that are held in school,quiz competitions etc to get familiar.

2.CIPA-Child Internet Protection Act:-

Every school must undergo through the act of CIPA and must have web filters besides also it should also follow some technology limits and preventive measures in order to protect the students from vulgar content and obscene material that effects the child mind and studies.Any detrimental content that is present will be immediately blocked or restricted.

3.COPPA-Children's Online Privacy Protection Act:-

This law namely COPPA mainly applicable to the commercial companies and restricts their collection or gathering of online data from children under the age of "13".We can observe this by considering a scenario in which Google advertising turned off Apps for education users.The second scenario is in which in order to obtain an Apple ID one must be 13 years old.

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