This page provides information and resources regarding your legal rights to data privacy.
These are just some of the laws that protect your right to your data privacy:
A number of exemptions are specified in the RCW, including those for library records, and educational records.
"FERPA is a federal law that protects the privacy of student records by allowing parents rights to their child’s education records. Rights transfer to the student at the age of 18 or if the student attends a postsecondary institution" (from Credo Reference: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act).
This is "the toughest privacy and security law in the world. Though it was drafted and passed by the European Union (EU), it imposes obligations onto organizations anywhere, so long as they target or collect data related to people in the EU" (from What is GDPR, the EU's new data protection law?) Although this is not a US law, it does apply to any organization that deals with information about any person living within the EU (which often includes companies that operate or are founded in the US).
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA), you have certain rights to privacy with regards to your medical records. HIPPA is particularly important with regards to your electronic health record (or EHR).
"Privacy Act of 1974, U.S. legislation that restricts the dissemination of personal information about an individual by federal agencies and requires that when such information is collected, the individual to whom it pertains be informed of the ways in which it could be used" (from Britannica Academic: Privacy Act of 1974).
Requires colleges to keep different type of educational records, securely, for specified amounts of time.
Libraries follow the general schedule instead of the colleges schedule. Most library records can be destroyed after there is no longer a business use for them. See page 111.
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