Report offers suggestions for updating US CMPPA

The U.S. Congressional Research Service issued a report on potential ways to update the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act, a law passed in 1988 to establish “procedures for agencies when they disclose and match data on individuals for certain purposes.” The report outlined changes such as “clarifying the scope of the CMPPA, developing an accurate accounting of matching programs … and assessing regulation and oversight of data matching.”