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Executive Order 12333 was issued in 1981 to regulate national intelligence activities. Part I of the Order outlines the goals and responsibilities of major Federal Agencies and Departments involved with national security an intelligence gathering. Part II created regulations for the collection of intelligence [...]
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OMB Memoranda 06-15 and 06-16: Safeguarding Information Maintained by the U.S. Government
In 2006, the Office of Management and Budget published two memoranda back to back dealing specifically with protecting certain types of information maintained by the Federal Government. M-06-15 addresses safeguarding personally identifiable information. M-06-16 deals with the protection of sensitive agency information. Both memoranda reiterate the security requirements of previous regulations, and expand upon them to make them more effective.
OMB M-06-15: Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information
M-06-15 served as a reminder to government agencies of their responsibilities towards protecting personally identifiable information.
Under the Privacy Act of 1974 agencies must:
Establish rules [...]
There are a number of more specific regulations, often attached to more extensive laws, that play a role in privacy protection in the U.S. Government. The Federal Agency Data Mining Reporting Act of 2007, The Federal Advisory Committee Act and the Government in the Sunshine Act all protect privacy by promoting public access to records dealing with Government [...]
The E-Government Acts of 2002 involved a large number of new regulations to implement and control the use of electronic technologies by the U.S. Government. Title III of this Act, called the Federal Information Security Management Act required all Government agencies to develop extensive information security [...]
The Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects is part of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations. It controls the use of human subjects in experimental testing. Along with protecting the physical safety and well being of subjects, the Rule also protects the privacy of individuals and their personal [...]
The E-Government Act of 2002, containing 5 separate Titles and 40 different sections, created many new regulations for the implementation and use of electronic information in the Federal [...]
The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 passed a large number of regulations to increase national security. Increasing security protection, often, unfortunately decreases privacy protection, so the act also included a number of regulations restricting the use of personally identifiable information by the Federal Government. Among these regulations is Section 803, which amended the National Security Intelligence Reform Act. This policy created new positions called privacy and civil liberties officers to oversee the protection of such rights in government agencies and [...]
Visiting the doctor’s office is a nightmare for the Data Privacy Professional. One glance at all that paper reaching as far as the eye can see and all containing so much PII. Nancy Northrup discusses a new encryption product which shows potential for slowing the persistence of the [...]
The Privacy Act of 1974 is a public sector law that regulates the use of personal information by the United States Government. Specifically it establishes rules, similar to the Fair Information Practice Principles that determine what information may be collected and how it may be used in order to protect the personal privacy of U.S. [...]