Citation[]
DHS Privacy Office, Handbook for Safeguarding Sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (Mar. 2012) (full-text).
Overview[]
This Handbook provides minimum standards that apply to every DHS employee, contractor, detailee, intern and consultant. The Component Privacy Officer, Privacy Point of Contact (PPOC), Program Office, or System Owner may set additional or more specific rules for handling PII based on the sensitivity of the information involved.
This handbook explains:
- How to identify PII and Sensitive PII
- How to protect Sensitive PII in different contexts and formats, and
- What to do if you believe Sensitive PII has been compromised.