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[Music] let's take a look at the privacy act the antithesis of the foia is the privacy act the purpose of foia is to make governmental records available to the public the purpose of the privacy act is to withhold sensitive documents from public disclosure the privacy act is also found in the apa entitled records maintained on individuals this reflects the act's goal of protecting the privacy of records collected and maintained about individuals not other governmental records records are defined as any item collection or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency the heads of some agencies may propagate rules exempting certain records from the requirements of the privacy act the privacy act does not prohibit agencies from collecting information about people it does however restrict an agency's authority to collect information an agency must maintain all records that it uses in making any determination about an individual with such accuracy relevance time