Coordinators of an upcoming conference, attended by federal
government IT managers and staff, invited you to participate in a panel
presentation about privacy. For this activity, prepare a 5 to 7 paragraph
briefing statement which answers the following four questions. Use information
from the weekly readings as your research material. Go to Content >>
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statement.”
Definitions:
Privacy has many definitions. When examining data protection
and privacy laws and practices, it can be helpful to focus on four categories
or classes of privacy.
Information privacy is concerned with establishing rules
that govern the collection and handling of personal information. Examples
include financial information, medical information, government records and
records of a person’s activities on the Internet.
Bodily privacy focuses on a person’s physical being and any
invasion thereof. Such an invasion can take the form of genetic testing, drug
testing or body cavity searches. It also encompasses issues such as birth
control, abortion, and adoption.
Territorial privacy is concerned with placing limits on the
ability to intrude into another individual’s environment. “Environment” can
include the home, workplace, or public space. Invasion into an individual’s
territorial privacy typically takes the form of monitoring such as video
surveillance, ID checks, and use of similar technology and procedures.
Communications privacy encompasses protection of the means
of correspondence, including postal mail, telephone conversations, email, and
other forms of communicative behavior and apparatus.
Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA): A PIA is both a process and
a document. It is a process that focuses upon identifying and assessing risks
related to privacy of data handled by a specific IT system or database. It is a
process that communicates the results of the PIA process to stakeholders.
Released PIAs are either fully available to the public, while redaction removes
sensitive/non-public information in other PIAs.
When responding to this discussion, prepare a 5 to 7
paragraph briefing statement which answers the following four questions:
1. What is privacy? Is it a right? An expectation? Discuss
differing definitions, e.g. “the average person” definition vs. a
legal definition, and how these differences impact risk assessments for privacy
protections (or the lack thereof).
2. What are some important best practices for protecting
privacy for information collected, stored, used, and transferred by the US
federal government? Identify and discuss three or more best practice recommendations
for reducing risk by improving or ensuring the privacy of information processed
by or stored in an organization’s IT systems and databases.
3. Explain why federal government agencies and departments
required to complete PIA’s. Should every federal IT system have a PIA? Why or
why not?
4. Name and briefly describe 3 benefits to citizens which
result from the use of PIA’s. (Considering citizen’s needs for privacy and the
protection of the privacy of individuals whose information is collected, processed,
transmitted, and stored in federal government IT systems and databases.)
Provide in-text citations and references for 3 or more
authoritative sources. Put the reference list at the end of your posting.
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