To:  Direct Access Working Group - Team D
From:  Rich Jarvinen, SDG&E
Date:  July 12, 1996
Re:  DEFINITIONS FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF INFORMATION

Per DAWG Team D's request, following are proposed definitions to be included
in the August 30th report glossary.  These definitions will be the foundation
upon which some concepts within Section 10.0, Access to Customer Information,
will be built.  Please provide me with comments and suggestions to help clarify
these terms.  Thanks,

PERSONAL INFORMATION  - Information that can be linked to an individual or
distinct group of individuals.(A)

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION - Personal information that if disclosed or
used inappropriately, creates the potential for harm to the individual.(B) It
includes social security numbers, passkeys, and information related to helath
care, political persuasion, sexual matters and orientation, and personal
finances.(C)

Following are definitions that I propose, adapted from the above as well as
work done under Group D:

NON-SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION - Personal information that when disclosed
creates little potential for harm to the individual either under specific
provisions of use, or misuse once probability of misuse is considered.
Personal information that, when used per specific legal or regulated provisions
and under strict control, creates little potential for harm is considered to be
non-sensitive.

IMPERSONAL INFORMATION - Information that cannot be linked to an individual or
distinct group of individuals.

CUSTOMER-SPECIFIC INFORMATION - Information that describes an individual's
characteristics, with or without linking that information to a specific
individual or distinct group of individuals.

AGGREGATE INFORMATION - Listed or summary information compiled in a single
place representing  more than one individual.


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(A)  Privacy and the NII:  Safeguarding Telecommunications-Related Personal
Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
under the U.S. Department of Commerce, October 1995, p. 6 (Hereafter referred
to as NTIA Report).
(B)  Adapted from Privacy and the National Information Infrastructure:
Principles for Providing and Using Personal Information, Privacy Working
Group, Information Policy Committee, Information Infrastructure Task Force,
U.S. Department of Commerce, p. 3 (Hereafter referred to as NII Report)
(C)  NTIA Report, Footnote 100, p. 50


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