One of data privacy’s greatest challenges is that it can all feel just so abstract. What does it really mean for an individual’s data to be at “risk”? What activities are riskier than others? Where is ...

The Office of Management and Budget wants to know how privacy impact assessments — analyses of the government’s use of personal information about individuals required of agencies — might be improved.

The Office of Personnel Management last Friday quietly replaced the privacy impact assessment for the governmentwide email system it has been using to send mass email blasts to the entirety of the ...

Customs and Border Protection confirmed in a privacy review published earlier this month that it was no longer collecting telemetry data, or smartphone location data, provided by commercial firms.

Privacy impact assessments (PIAs) and/or data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) have formed the practical basis for evaluating initiatives involving personal data ...