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5. Privacy and Security
Pages 32-33

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... Confidentiality -- the protection of sensitive information against access without proper authorization. Thus, confidentiality characterizes the need for limitation of access to certain information, whereas computer security represents the physical, technical, and administrative means for providing protection and for controlling access.
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... physical destruction, electronic eavesdropping, employee fraud, unauthorized divulgence of information, willful modification of file entries, disruptive attacks, communications outages, machine malfunctions, and system malfunctions resulting from software errors. It should analyze the federal legislation and executive guidelines under which the future system will have to function, particularly the Privacy Act of 1974, the Freedom of Information Act amendments of 1974, and OMB Circular A-71 on Security of Federal Automated Information Systems, issued July 27, 1978.
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