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- initialism US For
Official Use Only
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Examples
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What is most telling is that this document was classified as FOUO, For Official Use Only.
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We didn't report that because she slapped a secret classification on her e-mail: "FOUO," meaning "For Official Use Only."
Veterans Today 2010
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It is specifically forbidden to use "FOUO" "as an anemic form of classification."
Knowledge is Power 2009
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"FOUO" is * only* for information exempt from the Freedom of Information Act -- like personal information and proprietary corporate data (like internal backup documentation for contracts) in government records.
Knowledge is Power 2009
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Anyone with a smattering of common sense knows that anything produced by the Government is by definition in the public domain without restriction, unless classified or labeled FOUO.
Then don’t put your photos on Flickr, Mr. President. | RedState 2010
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The GAO reported that NASA had very lax property controls, and you want me to believe that you can keep secret/FOUO data on a thumbdrive secure?
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I have a VESTED interest in keeping Secret/Top Secret/FOUO information secure.
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DoD has made it clear that anything falling within the For Official Use Only (FOUO) category is off-limits for serving milbloggers, even those who might be writing these that publicly support the administration's positions.
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However, the Director of National Intelligence restricted use of the tags to official use only FOUO, so they could not be incorporated into NIEM, which is a publicly available schema.
Classification and Metadata: NIEM to ingest intell tags « ResourceShelf 2008
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If the images are FOUO (For Official Use Only) or Not Released the military definitely owns them.
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