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Report: DHS Must Do More to Protect Personal Info

Alice Lipowicz writes on GCN.com:

The Homeland Security Department is not doing enough to protect personal identifying information within its computer systems, according to a new report from DHS Inspector General Richard L. Skinner.

Personal identifying information is any information that can be used to identify a person. It includes, for example, full name, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card numbers and date of birth.

While the department has performed draft assessments of privacy impacts and risks to most of its 699 systems, the final validations and approvals by the DHS Privacy Office are not yet complete, the report [.pdf] said.

posted by Fergie @ 2/23/2007 01:40:00 PM