3.1: Security, Privacy and Personally Identifiable Information

Ensure that Data.gov does not compromise privacy or confidentiality.

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The Administration is committed to ensuring that Data.gov does not compromise privacy or confidentiality. Specifically, agencies that make their data available online must ensure that the data does not include personally identifiable information or in any way compromise law and policy. In addition, the Data.gov team will enhance and extend working groups under the Senior Advisory Group to learn from third party use of Federal data with an eye towards better understanding the effect of new mash‐ups and applications on intentionally and unintentionally unmasking sensitive personally identifiable information and/or creating security‐related issues. These working groups will recommend enhancements to policy and guidance as needed. Privacy considerations extend beyond the data itself to include the way that Data.gov measures performance and gathers feedback from the site. All feedback provided through Data.gov is anonymous with no tracking or identifier information captured. Furthermore, performance statistics will be gathered as specified within this document. Performance measures will be specifically targeted at macro use statistics without any identification of specific uses of specific data by individuals or groups.

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