How private?

摘要

No one wants anyone, least of all the government, poking around in their business. That's one reason even producers who support the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) are rightly concerned about data confidentiality. It boils down to wondering how safe producer-submitted data is from prying public eyes when it's part of a federal database. Though there's nothing ironclad where interpretation of the law is concerned, Elizabeth Springsteen, staff attorney with the National Agricultural Law Center, says producers face similar confidentiality protection with and without NAIS.