Chief Privacy Officer

The senior organizational official with overall organization-wide responsibility for information privacy issues.

See NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 under Senior Agency Official for Privacy and NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 4 under Senior Agency Official for Privacy for more information.

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The senior official, designated by the head of each agency, who has agency-wide responsibility for privacy, including implementation of privacy protections; compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and policies relating to privacy; management of privacy risks at the agency; and a central policy-making role in the agency’s development and evaluation of legislative, regulatory, and other policy proposals.

See NISTIR 8062 under Senior Agency Official for Privacy for more information.

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