The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects the privacy of student education records and restricts disclosure of personally identifiable information from those records without parental or student consent — with Title IV funding sanctions as the enforcement lever for non-compliant institutions. Zero Trust access controls directly address FERPA's legitimate educational interest standard by enforcing role-based, need-to-know access to student records systems, with audit logging that allows institutions to demonstrate appropriate access patterns to accreditors and the Department of Education.
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