Executive Order 13402 commanded the creation of a Presidential Identity Theft Task Force to examine how the Federal Government could better respond to and protect against data breaches resulting in identity theft. Under Federal regulations, such as the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Federal Information Security Management Act, individuals are guaranteed the security of their data, making adequate protection of data a matter of [...]
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Memorandum 06-19 was issued by the Office of Management and Budget in July 2006 to update the reporting requirements for data breaches involving personally identifiable information. It also addressed the need to budget in anticipation of providing adequate data security. Memorandum 04-26 was issued in September 2004 regarding personal use policies for employees accessing government computers and the use of file sharing [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] If asked to identify the point in the information lifecycle in which data is often most vulnerable, most people would not say “Destruction.” Destruction itself is a simple concept. After personal data or technology storing personal data is no longer useful it is discarded. However, completely erasing data from existence is not that easy. Computer files are particularly difficult to destroy. Furthermore, with the increasing use of cloud computing services, more and more personal data is being stored on third party servers, where the information controller has to trust their provider to remove the information when requested. Control over the deletion and destruction of data is taken out of the data controller and the data subject’s hands. The problems associated with proper disposal, make it so that the destruction of data is one of the times personal information is most likely to be at risk for unauthorized access. Because of this, data destruction remains an important privacy issue discussed among professionals in the industry [...] |
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