If you are sick of telemarketers, email blasts and direct mail crap, the World Privacy Forum has a list of 10 ways you can reduce calls, emails and mail. Their list includes everything from phone numbers for the Federal Do Not Call Registry to Internet Portal opt outs to FERPA opt outs.
What’s FERPA, ah, read on…
The Top 10 Opt outs are:
1. National Do Not Call Registry
2. Prescreened offers of credit and insurance
3. DMA opt outs
4. Financial institution opt outs
5. CAN SPAM
6. Credit freeze
7. FERPA
8. Data broker opt outs
9. Internet portal opt outs
10. NAI opt out
FERPA opt out stops schools from releasing student directory information (Name, home address, date of birth, and other information) without consent, with some limitations.FERPA opt outs are often done with a FERPA form supplied by the school. Usually school records offices will have FERPA information for you, or will know where to send you to find that information
For more on the World Privacy Forum's go here.
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