Farm Credit Administration Discovers the Cloud
Published Date: 6/3/2026
Notice
Summary
The Farm Credit Administration is updating how it stores records by switching from paper to electronic files. This change won’t affect your privacy rights or how you access your info, but it makes record-keeping safer and more modern. These updates take effect now and don’t cost you anything, just a smoother, tech-savvy system!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
FCA moves listed records to electronic
The Farm Credit Administration is changing how records in systems FCA-2, FCA-3, FCA-8, FCA-13, FCA-15, FCA-16, and FCA-17 are stored: "Records are maintained electronically in a computerized database." This is a non‑substantive change to the Policies and Practices for Storage of Records for those systems.
Updated security safeguards for FCA systems
The Agency updated the Administrative, Technical, and Physical Safeguards language: computerized records will be protected using user roles, passwords, firewalls, encryption, and other information technology security measures so access is limited to those with a need-to-know.
Privacy Act rights remain unchanged
The FCA states that transitioning from paper to electronic records "does not modify or otherwise impact the process by which individuals can exercise their rights under the statute" nor does it "create substantially greater access to" information in the systems.
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