5.3: Accountability & Compliance Mechanisms

Promote Accountability and Compliance Mechanisms

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Ensuring compliance through oversight, performance management, and accountability with proper enforcement mechanisms is as critical as identifying the protections themselves. Each department and agency currently monitors and reports on the rigor of its privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections using appropriate compliance documentation and performance management techniques. Monitoring and measuring compliance verification mechanisms for accountability assists mission partners in identifying and addressing vulnerabilities, and in validating they are actively and systematically refining protections for individual rights. As we transition to an enterprise-wide approach, protections must be continuously reinforced and assessed, including monitoring of access and use controls, analysis of audit and usage information, and regular and systematic compliance reviews. Privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties performance and compliance must evolve along with information sharing needs and methods. Going forward, this enterprise-wide model should include implementing technological means of reviewing and enforcing privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections, requirements, and policies.

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