Federal Contractors Must Provide Privacy Training

Effective immediately, federal contractors will need to comply with privacy training rules intended to ensure that their workforces protect personally identifiable information. As of January 19, 2017, federal contractors will need to follow a five-step plan to comply with the new rules issued by the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Step One: Identify

The first step in the process requires you to identify those individuals who are now subject to the privacy training rules. These include workers who:

• Have access to a system of records;
• Create, collect, use, process, store, maintain, disseminate, disclose, dispose, or otherwise handle "personally identifiable information" on behalf of the agency; or