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PII, Personally Identifiable Information.  This interactive training course was produced by the Defense Privacy Office in 2007.  This web-based training identifies what Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is and why it is important to protect.  It reviews a Department of Defense (DoD) organization’s responsibilities as it relates to PII recognition and protection.  Major legal, Federal, and DoD requirements for protecting PII are presented, to include the Privacy Act of 1974, E-Government Act of 2002, and the Federal Information Security Management Act, or FISMA.  Federal guidance from the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, is also discussed.  This training introduces the DoD Privacy Program and reviews PII protection measures mandated by recent Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) memoranda.  Significant requirements are reviewed for handling PII and the reporting of any theft, loss or compromise of this information.  The training is intended for DoD Civilians, military members, and contractors using DoD information and information systems.  The approximate course length is 30 minutes. 

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The Privacy Act of 1974.  This 32 minute training film was produced by the Defense Privacy Office in 1987.  Although the footage is somewhat dated and the picture quality is not up to today’s standards, the content is still very current.  The film explains the purpose of the Privacy Act, i.e., the protection of the individual’s right to personal privacy, given the Government’s need to maintain records containing personal information.  The statute confers specific rights to individuals about whom such records are maintained, principal among those rights are the rights of access to an amendment of records.  In furtherance of protecting personal privacy, the law established restrictions and requirements on the collection, use, maintenance, and dissemination of personal information.  The film explains these restrictions and requirements so that they are understood by both the individual about whom the information pertains and the persons whose duties include the collection, maintenance, use, or dissemination of personal information.

"The Privacy Act of 1974" - (Transcript)