; and (II) 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. (25) 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. (26) Protected class The term protected class means the actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity or expression), familial status, or disability of an individual or group of individuals. (27) Publicly available information The term publicly available information — (A) means— (i) information that is lawfully made available from a government entity; (ii) information linked to 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; (iii) information of an individual that— (I) is made publicly accessible by such individual, without restrictions on accessibility other than the general authorization to access the services used to make the information accessible; and (II) such individual has the ability to delete or change without relying on a request under section 102 or 103; and (B) does not include— (i) biometric information of an individual collected by a covered entity without the individual’s knowledge; (ii) information used for a purpose that is not compatible with the purpose for which the information is maintained and made available in government records