Privacy Act Section 8

In the case of any matching program as defined in section 552a a 8 of title 5 united states code as added by section 5 of this act in operation before june 1 1989 the amendments made by this act other than the amendments described in subsection b shall take effect january 1 1990 if.

Privacy act section 8. Department of housing and urban development 451 7th street s w washington dc 20410 telephone. A has been used is being used or is available for use for an administrative purpose. 8 a notice so published is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 46a of the acts interpretation act 1901.

2 subject to any other act of parliament personal information under the control of a government institution may be disclosed. 18l limits on use by credit providers of personal information contained in credit reports etc. The act also provides individuals with a means by which to seek access to and amendment of their records and sets forth various agency record keeping requirements.

Where personal information may be disclosed. Section 8 2 m is not a loophole in the privacy actwhich simply allows government departments and agencies to make information public when it should remain private. B is organized or intended to be retrieved by the name of an individual or by an identifying number symbol or other particular assigned to an individual.

The privacy act prohibits the disclosure of a record about an individual from a system of records absent the written consent of the individual unless the disclosure is pursuant to one of twelve statutory exceptions. Prohibits disclosure of such records without the prior written consent of the individual s to whom the records pertain unless one of the twelve disclosure exceptions enumerated in subsection b of the act applies. The provision is applied in unique fact specific situations.

It is not designed to deal with the disclosure of personal information on a systematic or routine basis. 10 1 the head of a government institution shall cause to be included in personal information banks all personal information under the control of the government institution that. 8 8 an app entity discloses personal information where it makes it accessible to others outside the entity and releases the subsequent handling of the information from its effective control.

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