From: Norton Rose Fulbright
Effective January 19, 2017, an update to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) will require certain contractors that provide services to the federal government to train their employees on privacy. New contracts into which the federal government enters with contractors will include privacy training requirements. In addition, the rule requires contractors to flow down privacy training requirements to their subcontractors.
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The rule incorporates the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) definitions of key terms. The new rule defines “personally identifiable information” as “information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or when combined with other information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual.”
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