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Connecticut
Credit card marketing at public colleges: Board of Regents policy barring disclosure of undergraduate identifying information to card issuers without notice and opt-out
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 10a-44b(b)(5)
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Governance
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are the Board of Regents for Higher Education, adopt policies that prohibit public institutions of higher education from disclosing identifying information of undergraduate students to credit card issuers unless the institution has given the students notice of and the opportunity to opt out of the disclosure in accordance with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act regulations (section 10a-44b(b)(5)).
- Your policies must also require credit card issuers to register with a public institution of higher education before marketing on its campus, and must prohibit issuers from marketing to undergraduate students during the orientation and class registration periods (section 10a-44b(b)(1), (3)).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 10a-44b directs the Board of Regents to adopt campus credit card marketing policies, including a limit on disclosing undergraduate identifying information to issuers. It names no log, no record kept, no audit and no reader of a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 10a-44b of the General Statutes requires the Board of Regents for Higher Education to adopt policies regulating the marketing practices of credit card issuers on the campuses of public institutions of higher education.
The policies must prohibit public institutions of higher education from disclosing identifying information of undergraduate students to credit card issuers unless the institution has given the students notice of and the opportunity to opt out of the disclosure in accordance with the regulations under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 USC 1232g. The Board's policies must also require issuers to register with the institution before marketing and prohibit marketing to undergraduates during orientation and class registration. Section 10a-44b took effect .
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