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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · S. 1208 (Introduced in Senate) — To amend title 5, United States Code, to address records maintained on individuals, and for other purposes. · Sec. 2

Sec. 2. Modernizing Privacy Act definitions

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Section 552a(a) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (2), by striking a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence and inserting the following: “a natural person who is— a United States person, as defined in section 101 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ( 50 U.S.C. 1801 ); or in the United States; ; by striking paragraphs
(4)and
(5)and inserting the following: the term record means any personally identifiable information processed by an agency; the term system of records means a group of any records maintained by or for, or otherwise under the control of, any agency; ; in paragraph (12), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (13), by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and by adding at the end the following: the term personally identifiable information means any information that identifies, or is linked or reasonably linkable, alone or in combination with other data, to— an individual; or a device that identifies, or is linked or reasonably linkable to, an individual; and the term process , with respect to personally identifiable information, means to perform an operation or set of operations on the personally identifiable information, including by storing, analyzing, organizing, structuring, using, modifying, or otherwise handling the personally identifiable information, whether or not by automated means. . Section 552a(a)(8)(A) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking of ; in clause (i), in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking two or more automated systems of records or a system of records with non-Federal records and inserting the following: involving any data from 1 or more systems of records ; and in clause (ii), by striking two or more and inserting of 2 or more . Section 552a(m)(1) of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking for the operation by or on behalf of the agency of a system of records to accomplish an agency function and inserting or other agreement, including with another agency, for the operation by or on behalf of the agency of a system of records . Section 552a of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph (1), by striking section 552(e) and inserting section 552(f) ; and in paragraph (8)(B)— in clause (iv)(III), by striking section 404(e), 464, or 1137 and inserting section 464 or 1137 ; and in clause (x), by striking section 3(d)(4) of the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 and inserting section 529A(d)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 ; and in subsection (l), by striking National Archives of the United States each place that term appears and inserting National Archives and Records Administration .
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