Privacy Act of 1974
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 5: Securing Applications and Data
A United States law that controls how federal agencies collect, use and share personal records. It is one of the main laws protecting personally identifiable information (PII).
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 5.2.A.4
Why it matters in Unit 5
Regulated data such as PII must be labeled and handled under laws like this one.
Example
A federal agency must protect the names, addresses and Social Security numbers in its records.
Learn it properly, with a checkpoint 5.2 Protecting Applications and Data: Managerial Controls and Access ControlsGo deeper: the professional references
Security professionals worldwide use these: the NIST glossary (the U.S. government's official security dictionary), MITRE ATT&CK (real attacker techniques), MITRE CWE (software weaknesses) and the internet's own standards (RFCs). They go beyond the AP® course, so use the definition above for the exam.