Information people are putting onto these web sites to begin with. And secondly then, we need to customers themselves need to be educated to make sure that they understand what their rights are and that they ask the hard questions before just giving very personal information. Host well, joining our conversation is dustin foltz of the national journal. You joined a few lawmakers earlier this week in introducing or writing a letter to the Government Accountability Office Asking them to take a look at what the government and the private sector are doing to, after data breaches, how theyre helping and responding and helping customers. It seems as though the sense of the letter is more needs to be done. Is it your sense that both the government and the private sector are really not responding to data breaches the way they need to effectively . Guest well, the government and the private companies theyre saying that theyre giving protection to customers. I think in opms case, it was 18 months
This week on the communicators were going to talk with the congressional cochairs of the privacy caucus and the cybersecurity caucus in congress. First up representative diana to get democrat of colorado serves on the energy and Commerce Committee and she is the privacy caucus cochair. Representative to get when it comes to technology where do you go your personal line between privacy and security . I think that most people who are putting information onto the internet whether its their Social Security number or other information they think its going to be secure most of the time. Unfortunately as we have learned all too well last year now american and israeli secure from cybersecurity breaches. Is there a remedy of any type and what can we do to protect that information . Of course both private companies and the government trying to keep up with these hackers but we have seen attack after attack. The most recent attack of course by the office of Personnel Management but also in privat