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override other compelling interests such as privacy, trade secrets, intellectual property, and other
confidentiality protections.
e. Integrity refers to the security and protection of information from unauthorized access or revision
to ensure that the information is not compromised through corruption or falsification.
f. Information is defined as any communication or representation of knowledge such as facts or
data, in any medium or form, including textual, numerical, graphic, cartographic, narrative, or
audiovisual forms. This definition includes information that an agency disseminates from a web
page, but does not include the provision of hyperlinks to information that others disseminate.
This definition does not include opinions, where the agency's presentation makes it clear that
what is being offered is someone's opinion rather than fact or the agency's views.
g. Government information is defined as information created, collected, processed, disseminated, or
disposed of by or for the Federal Government.
h. Information dissemination products include any book, paper, map, machine-readable material
(including CD-ROMs and web pages), audiovisual production, or other documentary material,
regardless of physical form or characteristic, disseminated by an agency to the public.
i. Dissemination is the initiated or sponsored distribution of information to the public (see 5 C.F.R.
1320.3(d) (definition of "Conduct or Sponsor")). It does not include distribution limited to:
(1) government employees or agency contractors or grantees;
(2) intra- or inter-agency use or sharing of government information;
(3) responses to requests for agency records under the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy
Act, the Federal Advisory Committee or other similar law;
(4) correspondence with individuals or persons;
(5) press releases;
(6) archival records;
(7) public filings; and
(8) subpoenas, or adjudicative processes.
j. Influential, when used in the phrase "influential scientific, financial, or statistical information,"
means "the agency can reasonably determine that dissemination of the information will have or
does have a clear and substantial impact on important public policies or important private sector
decisions." Information that has an intense impact on a broad range of parties would be regarded
as influential.
k. Reproducibility means that the information is capable of being substantially reproduced, subject
to an acceptable degree of imprecision. If an agency is responsible for disseminating influential
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