Privacy Act of 1974

• Applies to federal agencies

• “No agency shall disclose any record … to any person, or to another agency, except … with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains, unless disclosure of the record would be --

  • … used solely as a statistical research or reporting record, and the record is to be transferred in a form that is not individually identifiable” (not a defined term)

• Restriction on “matching programs”

  • any computerized comparison of -- (i) two or more automated systems of records … [certain exceptions] 5 USC §552(b)

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