IG: TSA employees are privacy pros
Employees at the Transportation Security Administration are savvy about privacy and understand how to prevent privacy problems, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reports.
A recent survey of nearly 2,300 TSA employees found that 80 percent were able to spot an incident that could jeopardize privacy from a list of five examples. Nearly all of those surveyed--95 percent--knew how to report procedures for suspected privacy incidents.
More than 80 percent pointed to training that had boosted their awareness of privacy issues.
"TSA has made progress in implementing a framework that promotes a privacy culture and complies with federal privacy laws and regulations," the IG said, but "can improve its privacy program by implementing automated privacy-specific tools for testing and monitoring."
For more on TSA and privacy:
- see this Nextgov.com article
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