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Bookmark or Share- Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties | Privacy Act of 1974The Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. § 552a, establishes a code of fair information practices that governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of information about individuals that is maintained in systems of records by federal agencies. A system of records is a group of records under the control of an agency from ...
- Overview of the Privacy Act: 2020 Edition - United States Department of ...The Privacy Act of 1974, Pub Law No. 93-579, 88 Stat 1896 (Dec. 31, 1974), codified at 5 U.S.C. § 552a (2018), went into effect on September 27, 1975, when it became the principal law governing the handling of personal information in the federal government.
- Overview of The Privacy Act of 1974 (2020 Edition)The “Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974,” prepared by the Department of Justice’s Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL), constitutes a discussion of various provisions of the Privacy Act, as addressed by court decisions in cases involving the Act’s disclosure prohibition, its access and amendment provisions, and its agency ...
- Overview of the Privacy Act: 2020 Edition - United States Department of ...The Privacy Act provides individuals with a means to access government records about themselves. The right of access under the Privacy Act is similar to that of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and the statutes do overlap, but not entirely.
- Overview of the Privacy Act: 2020 Edition - United States Department of ...Under the Privacy Act’s disclosure provision, agencies generally are prohibited from disclosing records by any means of communication – written, oral, electronic, or mechanical – without the written consent of the individual, subject to twelve exceptions.
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