Do Certificates of Confidentiality protect against a request for data under FOIA or the A-110 amendment?
No. A Certificate of Confidentiality protects identifying information of subjects. It does not exempt the entire data set. However, it should be noted that identifying information is also protected under FOIA as well as under the A-110 amendment. Are data collected under an SBIR or STTR accessible through the A-110 amendment? No, commercial organizations are exempted. What happens if a FOIA request is made for data that are available to the public in an archive? The FOIA officer will refer the requester to the archive where the data are available. I am an investigator working on a topic that is often cited in regulations. Therefore, I would like to plan to archive the data to be collected in my next project. Can I request funding in the application to archive the resulting data? Yes. You should describe the archiving plan in the study design and include information about this in the budget justification section of the application. Besides archiving, what other things should I be thinki
