At the last minute, the Federal Acquisition Regulations were amended by the Obama Administration requiring federal contractors to provide employees with “privacy training.” The new rule, issued on January 20, 2017, was effective January 19, 2017!
Under the privacy rule, contractors must provide a program to train employees to protect personally identifiable information, both their own and that to which they have access. Contractors must:
All contracts with PII, including those for commercial items, are covered and the requirement to provide privacy training flows-down to all subcontractors including those for commercial items when they involve handling and safeguarding of PII.
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