Definitions for classified information
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1. Classified information

   Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, and mishandling of the material can incur criminal penalties. A formal security clearance is required to view or handle classified material. The clearance process requires a satisfactory background investigation. Documents and other information must be properly marked "by the author" with one of several (hierarchical) levels of sensitivity—e.g. restricted, confidential, secret, and top secret. The choice of level is based on an impact assessment; governments have their own criteria, including how to determine the classification of an information asset and rules on how to protect information classified at each level. This process often includes security clearances for personnel handling the information. Some corporations and non-government organizations also assign levels of protection to their private information, either from a desire to protect trade secrets, or because of laws and regulations governing various matters such as personal privacy, sealed legal proceedings and the timing of financial information releases. With the passage of time much classified information can become less sensitive, and may be declassified and made public. Since the late twentieth century there has been freedom of information legislation in some countries, whereby the public is deemed to have the right to all information that is not considered to be damaging if released. Sometimes documents are released with information still considered confidential obscured (redacted), as in the adjacent example. The question exists among some political science and legal experts whether the definition of classified ought to be information that would cause injury to the cause of justice, human rights, etc., rather than information that would cause injury to the national interest; to distinguish when classifying information is in the collective best interest of a just society, or merely the best interest of a society acting unjustly to protect its people, government, or administrative officials from legitimate recourses consistent with a fair and just social contract.

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1. Classified information

   Classified information is a term applied to material that a government or group of governments claims is sensitive information that requires secrecy based on national or regional security needs. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people and mishandling can incur criminal penalties. A formal security clearance is often required to handle classified documents or access classified data. The clearance process usually requires a satisfactory background investigation. There are typically several hierarchical levels of sensitivity, with differing clearance requirements. The term refers to the formal categorization and marking of material by level of sensitivity but it has developed a sense synonymous with "censored" in US English. The act of assigning the level of sensitivity to data is called data classification. A distinction is often made between formal security classification and privacy markings such as "commercial in confidence". Specific practices and terminology vary by country and language. Some corporations and non-government organizations also assign sensitive information to multiple levels of protection, either from a desire to protect trade secrets, or because of laws and regulations governing various matters such as personal privacy, sealed legal proceedings and the timing of financial information releases.

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1. classified information

   Official information that has been determined to require, in the interests of national security, protection against unauthorized disclosure and which has been so designated.

How to pronounce classified information?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say classified information in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of classified information in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of classified information in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of classified information in a Sentence

1. Sarah Sanders:

   The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that’s what he’s doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action.

2. An NCIS spokesman:

   The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is in receipt of an allegation that Mr. O'Neill may have revealed classified information to persons not authorized to receive such information, in response, NCIS has initiated an investigation to determine the merit of the allegations.

3. White House:

   Government officials, with access to classified information derived from a counterintelligence investigation and from classified intelligence intercepts, engaged in a campaign of illegal leaks against the president.

4. Donald Trump:

   Hillary Clinton's a monster, look at what's happened, look at Hillary Clinton history, in another way, Hillary Clinton's a weak person. Hillary Clinton's actually not strong enough to be president. The latest headlines on the 2016 elections from the biggest name in politics. See Latest Coverage Clinton continues to say there was no classified information in official emails either sent or received on the private server, despite Comey saying parts of three emails indeed included classified material. On Saturday morning, Donald Trump turned to Twitter, a favorite means for his largely unfiltered attacks.

5. John Kirby:

   It's rare that a president inadvertently makes public classified information, but if he did, it could then be considered declassified, even then, however, there is typically an inter-agency discussion about that. It's not like a magic wand is waved and it becomes thus.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_Information
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=classified information
3. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf