📬USPS Privacy Act Update
The United States Postal Service[supreg] (USPS[supreg]) is proposing to revise one Customer Privacy Act Systems of Records (SOR). These updates are being made to implement an application to analyze and anticipate customer needs and assist sales staff.
Learn More✈️FAA Comments on Removing Private Aircraft Registration Data
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking comment on the impacts of removing certain aircraft registration data from public display on the FAA website, including through current search functions and published reports. The removal of this data is intended to satisfy the requirement in section 803 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, requiring removal of private aircraft owner or operator Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from broad dissemination or display by the FAA, including on a publicly available website of the FAA.
Learn More📄Delay of Privacy Act Implementation for NIH Police Records
On January 16, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule to make effective the exemptions that were previously proposed for a new Privacy Act system of records, "NIH Police Records," maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), from certain requirements of the Act. That final rule was originally scheduled to take effect on February 18, 2025. Subsequently, the effective date was delayed until March 21, 2025, in response to the memorandum titled "Regulatory Freeze Pending Review," issued by the President on January 20, 2025. This notice further delays the effective date until May 5, 2025.
Learn More📄FTC Notice on COPPA Rule Compliance Requirements and Costs
The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") requests that the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") extend for an additional three years the current Paperwork Reduction Act ("PRA") clearance for information collection requirements contained in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule ("COPPA Rule" or "Rule"). That clearance expires on April 30, 2025.
Learn More🔒NRC Updates on Systems of Records Under Privacy Act 1974
Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-108, to ensure the system of records notices remain accurate, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff reviews each notice on a periodic basis. As a result of this review, the NRC is republishing 13 of its system of records notices with minor corrective, clarifying, and administrative changes. These minor modifications include updating authorities, system managers, retention schedules, and various other minor updates, as well as edits that are intended to improve clarity of the notices but that are not intended to modify the systems themselves. None of the modifications the NRC is making meet the threshold criteria established by OMB for either a new or altered system of records.
Learn More📜Federal Reserve Notice on Privacy Act System of Records Modification
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, notice is given that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) proposes to modify an existing system of records entitled BGFRS/OIG-2 "Office of Inspector General (OIG) Personnel Records." These records are collected and maintained to assist the OIG in making determinations regarding hiring, retention, promotion, performance evaluations, recognition, and training of OIG personnel. These records are also used to respond to ethics inquires and provide advice.
Learn More🔒USDA Revises Privacy Act Regulations Affecting Business Compliance
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is amending its Privacy Act regulations to exempt a system of records, Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance (SITC) National Information Communication Activity System (SNICAS), USDA/APHIS-21, from certain provisions of the Privacy Act. USDA is further amending its Privacy Act regulations to reflect an administrative change to the list of system of records that are exempt from certain provisions of the Privacy Act.
Learn More🔒New Cybersecurity Requirements for Restricted Transactions Announced
CISA is announcing publication of finalized security requirements for restricted transactions pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14117, "Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern." In October 2024, CISA published proposed security requirements for restricted transactions which would apply to classes of restricted transactions identified in regulations issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ). CISA solicited comment on those proposed security requirements and considered that public feedback when developing the final security requirements. This notice also provides CISA's responses to the public comments received.
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