56th Congress, Ch. 872, Approved March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. 1449)

Sec. 20. [15 U.S.C. 278g-3] 

(d)  As used in this section—

(1)  the term “computer system”—

(A)  means any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception, of data or information; and

(B)  includes—

(i)  computers;

(ii)  ancillary equipment;

(iii)  software, firmware, and similar procedures;

(iv)  services, including support services; and

(v)  related resources as defined by regulations issued by the Administrator for General Services pursuant to section 111 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949;

(2)  the term “Federal computer system”—

(A)  means a computer system operated by a Federal agency or by a contractor of a Federal agency or other organization that processes information (using a computer system) on behalf of the Federal Government to accomplish a Federal function; and

(B)  includes automatic data processing equipment as that term is defined in section 111(a)(2) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949;

(3)  the term “operator of a Federal computer system” means a Federal agency, contractor of a Federal agency, or other organization that processes information using a computer system on behalf of the Federal Government to accomplish a Federal function;

(4)  the term “sensitive information” means any information, the loss, misuse, or unauthorized access to or modification of which could adversely affect the national interest or the conduct of Federal programs, or the privacy to which individuals are entitled under section 552a of title 5, United States Code (the Privacy Act), but which has not been specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive order or an Act of Congress to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy; and

(5)  the term “Federal agency” has the meaning given such term by section 3(b) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.