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GGD-84-93 1 (1984-08-31)

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             UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                       AUGUST 31.1984


The Honorable Glenn English
Chairman, Subcommittee on Government
  Information, Justice, and Agriculture
Committee on Government Operations
House of Representatives

Dear Mr. Chairman:


Subject:


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Privacy Policy Activities of the National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration (GAO/GGD-84-93)


     This report responds to the segment of your January 4,
1984, letter requesting that we review the privacy policy
activities of the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) at the Department of Commerce. As agreed
with your office, we will respond in a subsequent report to the
other segments of your request on how agencies are organized to
implement the Privacy Act and how agencies identify and consider
non-Privacy Act privacy issues.

     Our review found a decline in the activity and resources
devoted to privacy policy matters at NTIA in recent years. In
the 2 years following its establishment in 1978, NTIA was
actively developing and coordinating domestic privacy policy
initiatives for the nonfederal sector. Beginning in 1981, this
activity, and the resources devoted to it, declined substan-
tially. At the present time, NTIA maintains a minor residual
capability to respond to or refer requests for information on
privacy matters.

OBJECTIVE, SCOPE,
AND METHODOLOGY

     The objective of our review was to determine NTIA's activi-
ties devoted to privacy protection policy since it was formed in
1978. We focused on NTIA's privacy efforts which relate to
private sector recordkeeping on individuals. Such recordkeeping
includes the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of
information about people by businesses and other nonfederal
government institutions. Since the Office of Management and


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