Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Eh.

This wasn't as exciting as I was hoping it to be. :(

5 U.S.C. § 552a : US Code - Section 552A: Records maintained on individuals



(3) the term "maintain" includes maintain, collect, use, or
disseminate;
(4) the term "record" means any item, collection, or grouping
of information about an individual that is maintained by an
agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial
transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history
and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or
other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as
a finger or voice print or a photograph;
(5) the term "system of records" means a group of any records
under the control of any agency from which information is
retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying
number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the
individual;
(6) the term "statistical record" means a record in a system of
records maintained for statistical research or reporting purposes
only and not used in whole or in part in making any determination
about an identifiable individual, except as provided by section 8
of title 13;
(7) the term "routine use" means, with respect to the
disclosure of a record, the use of such record for a purpose
which is compatible with the purpose for which it was collected;
(8) the term "matching program" - 
(A) means any computerized comparison of - 
(i) two or more automated systems of records or a system of
records with non-Federal records for the purpose of - 



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