Internet Privacy: Agencies' Efforts to Implement OMB's Privacy PolicyDIANE Publishing, 2001 - 66 pages To ensure that individuals have notice about how their personal info. is handled when they visit Fed. Web sites, the OMB issued a memo requiring Fed. agencies to post privacy policies on their Internet Web sites and provided guidance. It requires agencies to post privacy policies that: clearly and concisely inform visitors to the Web sites what info. the agency collects, why it is collected, and how it will be used; and are clearly labeled and easily accessed when someone visits a Web site. This report provides info. on whether agencies were adhering to the OMB guidance. Compares OMB1s memo and its guidance with statutory require. that are applicable to agencies. |
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Page 59 - Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuse of the data...
Page 63 - ... (4) to the Bureau of the Census for purposes of planning or carrying out a census or survey or related activity pursuant to the provisions of title 13; (5) to a recipient who has provided the agency with advance adequate written assurance that the record will 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...
Page 22 - ... (C) the routine uses which may be made of the information, as published pursuant to paragraph (4)(D) of this subsection; and (D) the effects on him, if any, of not providing all or any part of the requested information...
Page 59 - There must be a way for an individual to find out what information about him is in a record and how it is used.
Page 50 - ... records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such law enforcement records or information (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings...
Page 63 - ... (8) to a person pursuant to a showing of compelling circumstances affecting the health or safety of an individual if upon such disclosure notification is transmitted to the last known address of...
Page 59 - There must be a way for an individual to prevent information about him that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without his consent.
Page 50 - ... (C) the categories of records maintained in the system ; (D) each routine use of the records contained in the system, including the categories of users and the purpose of such use; (E...
Page 32 - Agency Comments and Our Evaluation We provided a draft of this report to the Secretary of Defense for review and comment.
Page 57 - ... (3) inform each individual whom it asks to supply information, on the form which it uses to collect the information or on a separate form that can be retained by the individual...