As an institutional official responsible for privacy, we should obtain our information on current federal requirements from

• A. Wikipedia
• B. the CFR
• C. Google Scholar
• D. Washington Post official notices

Answer: (B)

The important idea is that current federal requirements are found in the official regulatory text published by the government. The Code of Federal Regulations is the formal, codified collection of federal rules that are in effect today. It is maintained to reflect final rules after the rulemaking process and is the authoritative source institutions rely on for compliance. While the Federal Register announces rulemaking and final rules, and is useful for understanding when and how rules change, the binding text you apply in practice is the CFR (and its online, continuously updated version). By contrast, Wikipedia is a user-edited encyclopedia, Google Scholar provides scholarly articles, and a newspaper’s notices are journalistic reporting rather than the official regulatory text. So the CFR is the correct source for current federal requirements.