This week, Jerry and Jody are joined by Jamie Danker, Vice President of Privacy at Easy Dynamics Corporation, to discuss how principles long accepted in the federal agency context might have applicability in the private sector or could be used as guideposts for national legislation. We also discuss the importance of taking a risk-based approach to privacy and data security management.
Jamie Danker had a distinguished privacy career in government both at GAO and DHS before moving to the private sector. In this episode, she makes connections between privacy laws and rules of conduct that bind the federal government and expectations for private companies. The federal government has had a privacy law since 1974 and the E-Government Act has required privacy impact assessments since its enactment in 2002. Federal government agencies are bound by statute to treat information obtained from or related to private citizens with care and not to accumulate information that is not needed to perform a governmental function.