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The law states the rules that a federal agency must follow to collect, use, transfer, and disclose an individual's personally identifiable information. The act also requires agencies to collect and store only the minimum information that they need to conduct their business.

What is Cost Collection? Cost collection, the result of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, requires all ambulance services that bill Medicare to report certain cost-related data to CMS. The goal of this cost-data collection is to allow CMS to assess the adequacy of the Ambulance Fee Schedule.

The Act defines “covered entity” to include any entity that collects, processes, or transfers covered data and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), including nonprofits, and telecommunications common carriers.

Despite numerous proposals over the years, no one comprehensive federal law governs data privacy in the U.S. yet. The American Data Privacy Protection Act (ADPPA) has made it further along the legislative process than any of its predecessors, but it still faces significant hurdles.

Germany's Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) in German, or the Federal Data Protection Act in English, was enacted in May 2018 to implement the GDPR in Germany.

There is no single principal data protection legislation in the United States (U.S.). Rather, a jumble of hundreds of laws enacted on both the federal and state levels serve to protect the personal data of U.S. residents.

Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency: Any processing of personal data should be lawful and fair. It should be transparent to individuals that personal data concerning them are collected, used, consulted, or otherwise processed and to what extent the personal data are or will be processed.

The Privacy Act applies only to U.S. citizens and aliens who are lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States. It applies only to personal information maintained by agencies in the executive branch of the federal government.