The Office of Management and Budget has begun soliciting public feedback on how to improve the use of privacy impact assessments, or PIAs, to mitigate privacy risks associated with artificial intelligence, data
MoreThe Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Department of Defense assign responsibility for ensuring cyber incident reporting and document when individuals affected by a breach of personally identifiable information were notified.
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The Government Accountability Office advises the Department of Homeland Security to take steps that boost oversight of contractors’ privacy controls and incident mitigation. DHS has made policies to protect contractors’ personally identifiable
MoreThe office of inspector general at the U.S. Agency for International Development has issued an audit report saying USAID has implemented key components of an effective privacy program but needs to carry
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William Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), has said that the U.S. is facing threats of having critical health care data breached by Chinese state-sponsored threat actors.
MoreA cyber breach of a U.S. Marshals Service system resulted in the exposure of personal data of approximately 387,000 former and current prisoners at the end of 2019, Nextgov reported Monday.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has launched a new challenge that aims to develop a new platform that will work to provide researchers access to personally identifiable information while ensuring
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House and Senate lawmakers advanced two bills last Wednesday that would expand the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity mission. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed a DHS reauthorization bill
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Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia) have introduced a bill that would penalize credit reporting agencies in the event of a security breach that affects consumer data. The Data Breach Prevention and
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The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday issued notification letters to agency employees who may have been impacted by a data breach in May 2017 related to the case management system of
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