Sec. 9. Purpose, objectives, and functions
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The Agency shall seek to protect individuals’ privacy, prevent and remediate privacy harms, prevent, remediate, and reduce discrimination on the basis of protected class through the processing of personal information, including both differential treatment on the basis of a protected class and disparate impact on a protected class, and limit the collection, processing, and sharing of personal data; and is authorized to exercise its authorities under this Act for such purposes.
The Agency is authorized to exercise its authorities under this Act to— protect individuals from violations of this Act, other Federal privacy laws, or rules and orders issued under this Act; promote and affirmatively further equal opportunity in all aspects of economic life as it relates to the fair and non-discriminatory processing of personal information; oversee the use of high-risk data practices; promote the minimization of collection of personal data for commercial purposes; prevent and remediate privacy harms; and ensure that Federal privacy law is enforced consistently and in order to protect individuals’ privacy.
The primary functions of the Agency are— providing leadership and coordination to the efforts of all Federal departments and agencies to enforce all Federal statutes, Executive orders, regulations and policies which involve privacy or data protection; maximizing effort, promoting efficiency, and eliminating conflict, competition, duplication, and inconsistency among the operations, functions, and jurisdictions of Federal departments and agencies responsible for privacy or data protection, and data protection rights and standards; providing active leadership, guidance, education, and appropriate assistance to private sector businesses, organizations, groups, institutions, and individuals regarding privacy and data protection rights and standards; requiring and overseeing ex-ante high-risk data practice risk assessments and ex-post high-risk data practice impact evaluations to advance fair and just data practices; protecting individuals and groups of individuals from privacy harms; examining the social, ethical, economic, and civil rights impacts of data collection and processing practices and proposing remedies; protecting civil rights, combating unlawful discrimination, and affirmatively furthering equal opportunity as they relate to the processing of personal information; ensuring that high-risk data privacy practices are fair, just, non-deceptive, and do not discriminate against a protected class; collecting, researching, and responding to complaints; developing model privacy and data protection standards, guidelines, and policies for use by the private sector; and enforcing other privacy statutes and rules as authorized by Congress.