44 U.S.C. § 3571 — Findings
submitted 7 years ago by Pub. L. 115-435 to r/title-44-PUBLIC-PRINTING-AND-DOCUMENTS · 160 words · no verdicts yet
Congress finds that legal protection for information given for strictly statistical purposes varies. It also finds that confidentiality pledges protect cooperation, accuracy, completeness, and the public and societal interests served by Federal statistical programs.
Congress finds: (1) individuals, businesses, and other organizations receive different levels of legal protection when giving information to agencies strictly for statistical purposes; (2) agency* confidentiality pledges assure the public that information about people or organizations, or supplied by them exclusively for statistical purposes, will be kept confidential and not used against them in agency action; (3) protecting people and organizations that provide information under such a pledge serves the public's interests and society's needs; (4) declining public trust in that protection harms the accuracy and completeness of statistical analyses; and (5) protecting pledged-confidentiality statistical information is essential to continued public cooperation in statistical programs.
The Congress finds the following:
Individuals, businesses, and other organizations have varying degrees of legal protection when providing information to the agencies for strictly statistical purposes.
Pledges of confidentiality by agencies provide assurances to the public that information about individuals or organizations or provided by individuals or organizations for exclusively statistical purposes will be held in confidence and will not be used against such individuals or organizations in any agency* action.
Protecting the confidentiality interests of individuals or organizations who provide information under a pledge of confidentiality for Federal statistical programs serves both the interests of the public and the needs of society.
Declining trust of the public in the protection of information provided under a pledge of confidentiality to the agencies adversely affects both the accuracy and completeness of statistical analyses.
Ensuring that information provided under a pledge of confidentiality for statistical purposes receives protection is essential in continuing public cooperation in statistical programs.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 115–435, title III, § 302(a), Jan. 14, 2019, 132 Stat. 5548.)
- 2019Enacted · Pub. L. 115-435 · 132 Stat. 5548
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