DoD Internet Practices and Policies

Abstract

This report is in response to Section 646 of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001, as contained in Public Law 106-554 Consolidated Appropriations Act. Section 646 requires the Inspector General to submit a report to Congress that discloses DoD activity on collecting, creating, sharing, and reviewing personally identifiable information about individuals and their viewing habits at Government web sites. The Office of Management and Budget and DoD issued policy on privacy and data collection activities at Government web sites. That policy prohibits the use of web technology to collect identifying information to build profiles on individuals, and prohibits the use of persistent cookies unless certain conditions are met, including obtaining the personal approval of the head of the agency. That authority for DoD is the Secretary of Defense. Our objective was to evaluate the DoD practices and policies on personally identifiable information gathered on individuals who access DoD Internet web sites.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 2001
Accession Number
ADA392123

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Marine Corps
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Web Browsers
  • Websites

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