The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced it has changed its privacy regulations in order to allow investigators to probe its databases for security vulnerabilities. The OPM is also in the middle of finding a contractor for notifying and providing identity-theft protection services for the 21.5 million victims of the second hack of the agency. In this post for Privacy Tech, Jedidiah Bracy, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, reports on the latest efforts by the OPM and the White House to shore up information security and appropriately respond to the second hack, as well as the latest moves by lawmakers to assess the relevance of providing such credit-monitoring services.
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