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“Does a U.S. citizen have any access to DHS records of entry?”Absolutely not. All records about individuals are covered by the US Privacy Act, even if they are not US citizens. It says,“No agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communication to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains…”Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974

There was a blog for a long time called Rate My Students, but professors didn’t actually rate students by name. It was more of a site to blow off steam and complain about unreasonable students, administrators, parents, and so on—but always under pseudonyms and with minor details changed. Like people in every job and profession, professors have their own horror stories and anecdotes about That One Student a few years ago who did That Thing like you wouldn’t believe. I’ve got a few That One Student anecdotes of my own—there was That One Student who turned in a term paper that plagiarized a paper that I wrote, and That One Student who was perpetually stoned and never made any sense, and That One Student who complained about being busted for plagiarism to the Dean, on the grounds that “this is a science course, not an English course,” and the Dean frickin’ bought it and overturned his grade. But I’m not about to tell them with the students’ real names attached.Reviewing students by name, however, would probably violate FERPA, the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, which basically says that university student records can’t be released without the student’s consent. Reviews of things That One Student used to do in class might well be considered “educational records.” Maybe not—but I’d rather not spend a ton of money on a court case to establish a precedent.

Many people have questions concerning the comparison of the GDPR and the CCPA. How can one be compared to the other? You’d better know it to avoid misunderstanding.The GDPR was created to launch a legal framework that implies the proper security of personal data for all EU residents. As for the CCPA, it is oriented more on transparency in the economy of California and it gives more rights to consumers.GDPR has more strict rules and its main goal is to let a person block any kind of their processing of personal data. While the CCPA allows consumers to better control the processing of their data and block it if necessary.That is, all the companies working in the EU should have a legal basis for working with personal data, whereas the CCPA doesn’t require such frameworks.Mostly, all rights are similar both in the GDPR and the CCPA, however, the right to prior consent under the GDPR has no analogs in the CCPA.