Privacy Act of 1974; Implementation

Document 2025-14134 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Defense in the Federal Register on July 28, 2025, with an effective date of August 27, 2025. The Department of Defense (Department or DoD) is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations to exempt portions of DoD-0020, Military Human Resource Records system of records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974. Specifically, the rule exempts portions of the Military Human Resource Records from certain provisions of the Privacy Act because of national security, and to prevent the undermining of evaluation materials used to determine potential for promotion. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/28/2025-14134/privacy-act-of-1974-implementation.

No. Document 2025-14134 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.