July 26, 2007

Government Report: DHS Has Large Privacy Backlog

The Homeland Security Department’s Privacy Office faces a huge backlog in informing the public of privacy risks related to more than 200 departmental systems, according to congressional testimony (pdf) given this week by a top official at the Government Accountability Office. Although the DHS Privacy Office has made progress in putting together a framework for conducting the assessments and issuing the public notices, backlogs of uncompleted work are continuing to grow in both areas, Linda Koontz, GAO’s director of information management issues, told the House Judiciary Committee’s Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee.

GAO: DHS falling behind on privacy notices, FCW.com, July 25, 2007.