The Privacy Act

question 3

Multiple Choice

The Privacy Act:

• A) prohibits any disclosures of records covered by the Act to the individuals about whom information has been collected.
• B) is another name for the Freedom of Information Act.
• C) requires agencies to collect information to the greatest extent practicable directly from the individual affected.
• D) requires agencies,after six years,to delete the information gathered about an individual.

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Definitions:

Reliability

The reliability and steadiness of outcomes produced by a measurement tool across multiple instances.

Aggregation

The process of combining multiple pieces or data points together to form a whole or summary measure.

Incremental Validation

A process of progressively verifying the steps or components of a model, system, or theory to ensure its accuracy or validity at each stage.

Null-hypothesis Significance Testing

A statistical method used to determine if there is enough evidence in a sample of data to infer that a certain condition holds true for the entire population.