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COPPA Edit

Disclosure means, with respect to personal information:

(a) The release of personal information collected by an operator from a child in identifiable form for any purpose, except where an operator provides such information to a person who provides support for the internal operations of the website or online service; and
(b) Making personal information collected by an operator from a child publicly available in identifiable form by any means, including but not limited to a public posting through the Internet, or through a personal home page or screen posted on a website or online service; a pen pal service; an electronic mail service; a message board; or a chat room.[1]

General Edit

Disclosure is

[t]he release, transfer, provision of access to, or divulging of personally identifiable information in any manner, electronic, verbal, or in writing, to an individual, agency, or organization outside of the agency that collected.[2]

United Kingdom Edit

Disclosure

[i]n relation to personal data, includes the disclosure of information extracted from such data and the transfer of such data but does not include a disclosure made directly or indirectly by a data controller or a data processor to an employee or agent of his for the purpose of enabling the employee or agent to carry out his duties; and, where the identification of a data subject depends partly on the data and partly on other information in the possession of the data controller, the data shall not be regarded as disclosed unless the other information is also disclosed.[3]

References Edit

  1. 16 C.F.R. Part 312.2.
  2. Guide to Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments for State, Local, and Tribal Information Sharing Initiatives, at 31.
  3. U.K. Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003.

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