Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
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| Other short titles | Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 |
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| Long title | An Act to protect the confidentiality of information acquired from the public for statistical purposes, and to permit the exchange of business data among designated statistical agencies for statistical purposes only. |
| Acronyms (colloquial) | CIPSEA |
| Nicknames | E-Government Act of 2002 |
| Enacted by | the 107th United States Congress |
| Effective | December 17, 2002 |
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| Public Law | 107-347 |
| Statutes at Large | 116 Stat. 2899 aka 116 Stat. 2962 |
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| Titles amended | 44 U.S.C.: Public Printing and Documents |
| U.S.C. sections amended | 44 U.S.C. ch. 35, subch. I § 3501 et seq. |
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The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act, ("CIPSEA"), is a United States federal law enacted in 2002 as Title V of the E-Government Act of 2002 (Pub.L. 107–347, 116 Stat. 2899, 44 U.S.C. § 101).
CIPSEA establishes uniform confidentiality protections for information collected for statistical purposes by U.S. statistical agencies, and it allows some data sharing between the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Census Bureau.[1] The agencies report to OMB on particular actions related to confidentiality and data sharing.[2][3][4]
Roughly speaking, the law guides standardized approaches to the idea that a respondent's information should not be exposed in ways that lead to inappropriate or surprising identification of the respondent. By default the respondent's data is used for statistical purposes only. If the respondent gives informed consent, the data can be put to some other use.