Rusyns (sometimes spelled Rusins, or called Carpatho-Rusyns signifying their villages being in the Carpathian Mountains) are one of the many nationalities/ethnic groups of Slovakia, along with Slovaks, Hungarians, Germans, and Romanies (Gypsies).
Confidential information is often only valuable if it can be used. Such use of information will invariably involve, (a) storage of the information in an accessible form; and (b) its disclosure to others.
The Privacy Act defines a record as any type of information that includes a person's name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph..