Anonymous feds have already sued, alleging that the Office of Personnel Management violated the law by not publishing a privacy impact assessment before deploying the new system, leaving sensitive data about federal employees potentially vulnerable.
Although OPM argued in its own legal filing that this assessment wasn’t necessary, the agency simultaneously released one for the government-wide email system last week. But the document looks different than typical PIAs issued by the agency, potentially raising further questions.
PIAs are required by the E-Government Act of 2002 to analyze how agencies collect and protect personally identifiable information in federal systems.
All of OPM’S other public PIAs — over 30 of them — are signed by the agency’s chief privacy officer or OPM’s senior agency official for privacy.
The PIA released last week is signed by OPM’s new chief information officer, Greg Hogan, who was quickly installed after the new Trump administration pushed Melvin Brown II, a career federal employee, out of the personnel agency’s CIO role.
Hogan is a political appointee who told OPM staff that, although he’s done cloud and data work, he’s never worked in government and has no executive or people ma ..
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