Data Processing Confidentiality Act (30 ILCS 585/)

Chapter 30 — Finance

Purchases and Contracts

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Sec. 0.01. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Data Processing Confidentiality Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Sec. 1.

Whenever any State agency governed by confidentiality requirements as to information in its possession gives, contracts out, or otherwise transmits such information in a form suitable for electronic data processing to any contractor, electronic data processing center, or other user outside such agency, for any purpose whatsoever, such agency shall notify the receiver of such data in writing of the agency's confidentiality requirements, including any penalties provided for their violation.

(Source: P.A. 84-347.)

Sec. 2.

It shall thereupon become the duty of the individual or entity who receives such data for electronic processing or storage to keep or use the same pursuant to the confidentiality requirements of the transmitting agency, and any receiver who violates them shall be subject to the same penalty as any officer or employee of such agency would incur for their violation.

(Source: P.A. 84-347.)