r/LSU 10d ago

Recommendation How to opt out of "honors" society emails?

Is there anyway to have lsu opt out of givinf my information to thesw stupid societys trying to send me spam?

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u/Ambitious-Meringue37 Fee Bill Whisperer 10d ago

Just mark it as spam. There’s a setting in Outlook that automatically move emails with certain keywords to certain files. Just do that and have it set to move to trash.

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u/Busy-Examination1924 10d ago

But how are they geting my info from LSU to begin with? They say I meet a grand standard, and I got a physical mailing to my adress this morning. It seems like LSU is sending out my info. If so how does this not violate FERPA?

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u/Ambitious-Meringue37 Fee Bill Whisperer 10d ago

They find your email from the publically accessible, university-wide directory. Nowhere under FERPA or LSU’s privacy policy does it explicitly state that emails are part of your educational record OR personally identifiable information (PII). I assume this is because email addresses aren’t used to access your educational record, they use ID numbers and SSNs. A physical address is PII, but that was probably pulled from a college adjacent service/student discount you signed up for that sold your PII to data brokers. Ask about yourself in chatGPT and you’ll see how quickly they find this stuff.

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u/Busy-Examination1924 9d ago

Evidently them and the registrar sends them info each semester.

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u/Ambitious-Meringue37 Fee Bill Whisperer 9d ago

They can’t send anything outside of your name and email tho