Q: Does the University need to comply with the new European Union privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)?
A: While this isn’t a FERPA question, there is overlap with FERPA and the GDPR. This new law protects personal information of people when they are physically present in an EU country. The University may be impacted by the GDPR in several ways, such as when prospective students in EU countries apply to the University or when we work with visiting scholars before they come to the US. The University is reviewing what processes and procedures should be adjusted to comply with these new requirements. However, because this is a new law it will take some time for all of the compliance impacts to be litigated and more fully explained. There is more information in this article about how the law might apply to US higher education institutions.
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