Privacy Impact Assessment Archives

U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

Federal employees re-up lawsuit against OPM’s use of mass email server

The amended complaint also lists five additional pseudonymous plaintiffs who aren’t executive branch employees.

Feb 11, 2025 By Billy Mitchell

A screenshot of the first OPM test email sent to employees across the federal government Jan. 24.

Lawsuit claims systems behind OPM governmentwide email blast are illegal, insecure

A pair of whistleblowers believe the office skirted the law by not conducting a privacy impact assessment for an alleged “on-prem” server used to send mass emails…

Jan 28, 2025 By Billy Mitchell

(U.S. Customs and Border Protection / Flickr)

DHS employees might not know what personal information CDM collects or when it happens

Correcting inaccuracies and errors is another privacy risk, according to a department assessment.

Feb 14, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

FEMA will monitor social media during disasters, to find victims

Stranded in a hurricane amid rising floodwaters? Just tweet about it. According a privacy impact assessment released last week by the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency…

May 2, 2016