---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6825"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6825"
heading: "Agency guidance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6825"
units:
  - "Chapter 94 — Privacy"
  - "Subchapter II — Fraudulent Access to Financial Information"
---

# §6825. Agency guidance


In furtherance of the objectives of this subchapter, each [Federal banking agency](/usc/15/6809.md?p=1) (as defined in [section 1813(z) of title 12](/usc/12/1813.md?p=z)), the National Credit Union [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1), and the Securities and Exchange Commission or self-regulatory organizations, as appropriate, shall review regulations and guidelines applicable to [financial institutions](/usc/15/6809.md?p=3-A) under their respective jurisdictions and shall prescribe such revisions to such regulations and guidelines as may be necessary to ensure that such [financial institutions](/usc/15/6809.md?p=3-A) have policies, procedures, and controls in place to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of [customer](/usc/15/6827.md?p=1) financial information and to deter and detect activities proscribed under [section 6821 of this title](/usc/15/6821.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–102, title V, § 525, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1448.)