Data Privacy for Government Contractors
17 min! Run Time
Employees
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of Completion
What you'll learn
Skills covered in this course
Description
Federal contractors and subcontractors that operate systems of records containing personal information fall under the Privacy Act of 1974. This training explains what that means in practice.
What this course covers:
- Data privacy requirements for US Government contractors and subcontractors
- How the Privacy Act of 1974 applies to contractor systems
- What defines a system of records
- What counts as personally identifiable information, or PII
- Practices contractors must observe to protect records and PII
Written for contractor and subcontractor personnel who handle federal records and need to meet their data privacy obligations.
System Requirements
See System Requirements in the Coggno Knowledge Base
Author
Data Privacy for Government Contractors
Frequently Asked Questions
This training applies to federal contractors and subcontractors that operate systems of records containing personal information, explaining what falling under the Privacy Act of 1974 actually means for their everyday work handling sensitive federal records.
It explains how the Privacy Act of 1974 applies to contractor systems, giving contractor personnel the legal grounding behind obligations that would otherwise read as abstract federal requirements disconnected from the daily tasks they actually perform.
The course carefully defines what a system of records actually is, a concept central to determining whether a contractor's data holdings trigger obligations under the Privacy Act of 1974 before any other federal requirement even applies.
It covers what counts as personally identifiable information, or PII, so contractor and subcontractor personnel can recognize the data types that carry federal privacy obligations under this law before they ever handle federal records themselves.
It is written for contractor and subcontractor personnel who handle federal records and need to meet their data privacy obligations under US Government requirements tied to those records and the systems that store them securely.
