Editor’s Note: OIRA’s responsibilities are being increased, will the increased resources it needs to protect privacy follow?

From: The White House Blog

by Shaun Donovan

Summary:  We’re creating a team of privacy professionals dedicated to making privacy a more comprehensive, strategic, and continuous function of Government.

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Today, we’re taking it a step further.

To build on and institutionalize this progress, I am establishing a new Privacy office and creating a dedicated senior career position for privacy within the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The new office and career official will be dedicated to strengthening the Government’s privacy practices and continuing to make privacy a more comprehensive, strategic, and continuous function of Government.

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