The Privacy Act of 1974 is a federal law that protects the privacy of individuals by regulating the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personal information by federal agencies. It also gives individuals the right to access and correct their own records held by federal agencies. The Act also requires agencies to provide
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The Privacy Act of 1974, a United States federal law, establishes a Code of Fair Information Practice that governs the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of personally identifiable information about individuals that is maintained in systems of records by federal agencies. At its creation, it was meant to be an "American Bill of Rights on data."