LOL from reading the New York Times reporting on the DoD’s internal UAP (UFO) reports last summer me and a guy I worked with guessed which compartment it fell under. We went to our FSO and asked for access to that compartment and he was like “why do you need that?”
Us: “UFOs!”
Him: “Oh, you mean FUOU? That goes by CUI these days.”
Us: “No, UFOs like Aliens!”
Him: “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE!”
So yeah, even with TS/SCI I couldn’t couldn’t get access to aliens :|
FOUO, for official use only. That’s non-secret but not appropriate for general release information (for some reason). CUI is the updated version of that level of classification.
FOUO - A doctors patient list. That isn’t the business of the public and should not be released. That data does not contain PII, patient health data, and is not protected as a matter of security but it is still protected data.
Classified - Data that is restricted from public release. This is lowest level of protection and is intentionally vague.
Secret - Information that if disclosed can be used to harm people or disrupt government operations by adversaries. This includes information like convoy travel schedules and communications outages. Secret data is typically really boring office information in otherwise more exciting work.
Top Secret - This information, if disclosed, will likely result in embarrassment to the extent that national security or diplomatic relations suffer or that the intentional imminent danger of death or bodily harm occurs to people.
I get what you're saying but a doctor's patient list contains PII and patient health data. The fact of a patient seeing a certain doctor, especially a specialist, reveals some private health information of a patient.
Us: “UFOs!”
Him: “Oh, you mean FUOU? That goes by CUI these days.”
Us: “No, UFOs like Aliens!”
Him: “GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE!”
So yeah, even with TS/SCI I couldn’t couldn’t get access to aliens :|