OMB and GAO disagree over privacy compliance

One From GCN says The Office of Management and Budget and the General Accounting Office are butting heads over the ability of agencies to assure the protection of individual privacy rights in agency systems.

In a GAO report (PDF) released yesterday for Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), ranking member of the Governmental Affairs Committee, the audit agency found that agency compliance with the Privacy Act of 1974 is uneven across agencies.