| CNSSI | Committee on National Security Systems Instruction |
| CSTB | Computer Science and Telecommunications Board |
| EHR | electronic health record |
| FIPP | Fair Information Practice Principle |
| FISA | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act |
| FTC | Federal Trade Commission |
| IT | information technology |
| HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
| HITECH | Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act |
| IC | Intelligence Community |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| ODNI | Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
| PIA | privacy impact assessment |
| PII | personally identifiable information |