---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 3571"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "3571"
heading: "Findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/3571"
units:
  - "Chapter 35 — Coordination of Federal Information Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency"
  - "Part B — Confidential Information Protection"
---

# §3571. Findings


The Congress finds the following:

- (1) Individuals, businesses, and other organizations have varying degrees of legal protection when providing information to the [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) for strictly statistical purposes.
- (2) Pledges of confidentiality by [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) provide assurances to the public that information about individuals or organizations or provided by individuals or organizations for exclusively statistical purposes will be held in confidence and will not be used against such individuals or organizations in any [agency](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) action.
- (3) Protecting the confidentiality interests of individuals or organizations who provide information under a pledge of confidentiality for Federal statistical programs serves both the interests of the public and the needs of society.
- (4) Declining trust of the public in the protection of information provided under a pledge of confidentiality to the [agencies](/usc/44/3502.md?p=1) adversely affects both the accuracy and completeness of statistical analyses.
- (5) Ensuring that information provided under a pledge of confidentiality for statistical purposes receives protection is essential in continuing public cooperation in statistical programs.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–435, title III, § 302(a), Jan. 14, 2019, 132 Stat. 5548.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Jan. 14, 2019, see section 403 of Pub. L. 115–435, set out as an Effective Date of 2019 Amendment note under section 306 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.