[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR401.30]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 401_PRIVACY AND DISCLOSURE OF OFFICIAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION--Table 
of Contents
 
                        Subpart B_The Privacy Act
 
Sec. 401.30  Privacy Act responsibilities.


    (a) Policy. Our policy is to protect the privacy of individuals to 
the fullest extent possible while nonetheless permitting the exchange of 
records required to fulfill our administrative and program 
responsibilities, and responsibilities for disclosing records which the 
general public is entitled to have under the Freedom of Information Act, 
5 U.S.C. 552, and 20 CFR part 402.
    (b) Maintenance of Records. We will maintain no record unless:
    (1) It is relevant and necessary to accomplish an SSA function which 
is required to be accomplished by statute or Executive Order;
    (2) We obtain the information in the record, as much as it is 
practicable, from the subject individual if we may use the record to 
determine an individual's rights, benefits or privileges under Federal 
programs;
    (3) We inform the individual providing the record to us of the 
authority for our asking him or her to provide the record (including 
whether providing the record is mandatory or voluntary, the principal 
purpose for maintaining the record, the routine uses for the record, and 
what effect his or her refusal to provide the record may have on him or 
her). Further, the individual agrees to provide the record, if the 
individual is not required by statute or Executive Order to do so.
    (c) First Amendment rights. We will keep no record which describes 
how an individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment 
unless we are expressly authorized:
    (1) By statute,
    (2) By the subject individual, or
    (3) Unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law 
enforcement activity.