White House Admonishes Agencies to Safeguard Citizen Data

Follow-up to the latest extensive incident of ID theft involving government records and citizen personal data, see this OMB Memoranda M-06-15, Safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information, May 22, 2006.
Related government documents and news:

  • VA outlines data security upgrades
  • Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affair hearing, VA Data Privacy Breach: Twenty-Six Million People Deserve Answers, May 25, 2006 [link to witness statements].
  • From 2004 – Chief Privacy Officers for Each Gov’t Agency
  • Current: Contact List of Senior Agency Officals for Privacy
  • And news: TechWeb – VA Worker Took Data Home For Years Before Break-in – “…none of his supervisors we talked to said they were aware that the employee had taken the file containing approximately 26.5 million veterans’ records to his residence.”
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