; (II) if such personal information is rendered intelligible within a hardware processing unit or other means of performing operations on the information, there are technical safeguards that, during the normal course of operation— (aa) prevent rendering personal information intelligible anywhere but within the hardware processing unit or other means of performing operations; and (bb) make the exporting or otherwise observing of such intelligible information, or the cryptographic secret used to protect such information, impossible; and (III) if the result of such processing of the personal information is also personal information, such result must be unintelligible to the covered entity or service provider and protected by privacy preserving computing. (B) Insufficient methodologies The Director may determine that a methodology of privacy preserving computing is insufficient for the purposes of this definition. (16) Process The term process means to perform or cause to be performed any operation or set of operations on personal information or contents of communication, whether or not by automated means. (17) Protected class The term protected class means the actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), familial status, or disability of an individual or group of individuals. (18) Publicly available information The term publicly available information means— (A) information that is lawfully made available from Federal, State, or local government records; (B) information about a public individual or official that is made publicly accessible, without restrictions on accessibility other than the general authorization to access the services used to make the information accessible