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PUBLIC LAW 93-579-DEC. 31, 1974
[88 STAT.
(5^ (^^ Whenever the Commission submits any budget estimate or request to the President or the OiRce of Management and Budget, it shall concurrently transmit a copy of that request to Congress. re^ommind'ations. ( ^) Wheuevcr the Commission submits any legislative recommendations, or testimony, or comments on legislation to the President or Office of Management and Budget, it shall concurrently transmit a copy thereof to the Congress. No officer or agency of the United States shall have any authority to require the Commission to submit its legislative recommendations, or testimony, or comments on legislation, to any officer or agency of the United States for approval, comments, or review, prior to the submission of such recommendations, testimony, or comments to the Congress. (b) The Commission shall— study. (1) make a study of the data banks, automated data processing programs, and information systems of governmental, regional, and private organizations, in order to determine the standards and procedures in force for the protection of personal information; and (2) recommend to the President and the Congress the extent, if any, to which the requirements and principles of section 552a Ante, p. 1897. gf ^]^\^ 5^ United States Code, should be applied to the information practices of those organizations by legislation, administrative action, or voluntary adoption of such requirements and principles, and report on such other legislative recommendations as it may determine to be necessary to protect the privacy of individuals while meeting the legitimate needs of government and society for information. (c)(1) In the course of conducting the study required under subsection (b)(1) of this section, and in its reports thereon, the Commission may research, examine, and analyze— (A) interstate transfer of information about individuals that is undertaken through manual files or by computer or other electronic or telecommunications means; (B) data banks and information programs and systems the operation of which significantly or substantially affect the enjoyment of the privacy and other personal and property rights of individuals; (C) the use of social security numbers, license plate numbers, universal identifiers, and other symbols to identify individuals in data banks and to gain access to, integrate, or centralize information systems and files; and (D) the matching and analysis of statistical data, such as Federal census data, with other sources of personal data, such as automobile registries and telephone directories, in order to reconstruct individual responses to statistical questionnaires for commercial or other purposes, in a way which results in a violation of the implied or explicitly recognized confidentiality of such information. (2)(A) The Commission may include in its examination personal information activities in the following areas: medical; insurance; education; employment and personnel; credit, banking and financial institutions; credit bureaus; the commercial reporting industry; cable television and other telecommunications media; travel, hotel and entertainment reservations; and electronic check processing. (B) The Commission shall include in its examination a study of— (i) whether a person engaged in interstate commerce who maintains a mailing list should be required to remove an individuaPs name and address from such list upon request of that individual;
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