Defining privacy protection by acknowledging what it's not

Federal Times: There's information security and there's privacy. And Marc Groman, senior adviser for privacy at the Office of Management and Budget, is the first to say that they're not mutually exclusive. But imply that they're one in the same, or even that management of one dictates management of the other, and he'll stop you in your tracks.

In fact, that notion of interdependence can impede agencies from establishing an effective security or privacy program, Groman argues. Less than a year into the job as top White House privacy official, he sat down with Executive Editor Jill Aitoro to set the record straight.

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