The Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies’ senior privacy officials to review and correct any policies and processes to ensure that they protect against misuse of or unauthorized access to personally identifiable information.

The memo, dated today from OMB acting director Clay Johnson, comes on the same day the Veterans Affairs Department announced that electronic data containing the personal information of up to 26.5 million veterans was stolen from the home of a VA employee. “Because federal agencies maintain significant amounts of information concerning individuals, we have a special duty to protect that information from loss and misuse,

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