Systems of Records

The Privacy Act defines “systems of records” as “a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual.” Federal agencies are required to make the public aware of what “systems of records” they maintain.

The table below lists and provides links to the Commission’s “Systems of Records.”

The Commission reviews and updates its Systems of Records by September 30 of each year in order to ensure that our inventory of personally identifiable information is accurate, relevant, timely, and complete.

In addition to the Commission's systems of records there are also government-wide systems of records. These government-wide systems of records represent instances in which another Federal agency has published a system of records that covers that type of information for all Federal agencies. Thus the FCC does not have to publish its own system of records for the type of items noted in the Government-wide Systems of Records.