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TSP plans RFP to improve data center security by year's end
The contract includes "very stringent" IT security requirements. The announcement follows a data breach that affected 123,000 TSP participants in 2011.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , TSP , Greg Long , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , Daniel Akaka , Greg Wilshusen , Mary Ellen Callahan , DHS , GAO , Ruben Gomez
DHS defends social media monitoring program
DHS officials said they're only monitoring Twitter and Facebook to get situational awareness of the homeland security situation. Congress seems unconvinced. Privacy group wants lawmakers to take action to stop DHS.
Tags: privacy , civil liberties , DHS , Congress , social media , information sharing , Patrick Meehan , Jackie Speier , Electronic Privacy Information Center , Mary Ellen Callahan , Jared Serbu , Web 2.0
DoD to issue new civil liberties guidance
Michael Reheuser is the director of the Defense Privacy and Civil Liberties Office, that oversees the Defense Department's compliance with the Privacy Act, which has been largely unchanged since 1974.
Tags: DoD , On DoD , privacy , civil liberties , 9/11 commission , Defense Privacy and Civil Liberties Office , Michael Reheuser , Jared Serbu
Recovery Board details FOIA, Privacy procedures
Tags: management , Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board , Federal Register , FOIA
Web managers meet fed new media superstars
Kundra speaks to front-liners in Obama new media push
Tags: technology , GSA , Vivek Kundra , Mason Phillips , websites , cybersecurity , White House
FAR Council wants to standardize privacy training for vendors
A proposed rule would ask contractors to track the training received by employees who work on federal systems.
Tags: acquisition policy , FAR Council , industry , Federal Register , Jason Miller
Privacy not taking back seat to security, cyberchief says
White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt says his office will focus on privacy as much as it will focus on cybersecurity. He says the government can't have security without privacy. Experts say they are pleased with Schmidt's initial ideas, but wonder where the privacy oversight board is.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , Howard Schmidt , Daniel Akaka , White House , Greg Nojeim , Center for Democracy and Technology , privacy , Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
DHS streamlining redress process for citizens
The Department of Homeland Security gets more Freedom of Information Act requests than any other agency. It's now assembling a new set of processes that will centralize requests by individuals who want to know what data the agency is storing about them.
Tags: technology , management , Mary Ellen Callahan , DHS , The Constitution Project , data mining , Jared Serbu
OMB seeks right recipe for web cookie policy
After more than 9 years, the Office of Management and Budget is about to revise its original policy banning the use of web cookies, or tracking software, on federal websites. The change is expected to help federal web managers better run their sites, and also offer the same kinds of user experiences now commonplace on commercial and private-sector websites.
Tags: technology , managment , OMB , OIRA , GSA , CIO Council , Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board , web 2,0 , Persistent cookie , Beth Noveck , White House Chief Technology Officer , Ari Schwartz , Center for Democracy and Technology
OMB details draft of new federal cookie policy
Notice likely to be published in Monday's federal register. White House wants comments on new rules.
Tags: technology , management , OMB , OIRA , GSA , CIO Council , Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board , Web 2.0 , Persistent cookie ,
