Personally Identifiable Information

As the federal government grapples to deal with the need to protect personally identifiable information and/or sensitive information, the concern among federal contractors and government employees is that the reaction will be too fast to be fully thought out. For example, for the government to be able to do business the solution is not the easy approach of not allowing any removable items, such as key fobs, which enables the government to be able to do such basic business processes, such as scanning a document that needs to be uploaded. Hopefully as the OMB strives to provide guidance to all federal agencies, they will provide adequate time for both government employees and contractors to understand the implications of the guidance as well as fully analyzing the need to protect PII and sensitive information without preventing all federal agency components from effectively and without undue interference carrying out their mission and fulfilling their business needs.