Privacy Program Leadership Role
LOW MODERATE HIGHRequirements NIST SOURCE
Appoint a senior agency official for privacy with the authority, mission, accountability, and resources to coordinate, develop, and implement, applicable privacy requirements and manage privacy risks through the organization-wide privacy program.
Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)
The privacy officer is an organizational official. For federal agencies—as defined by applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines—this official is designated as the senior agency official for privacy. Organizations may also refer to this official as the chief privacy officer. The senior agency official for privacy also has roles on the data management board (see PM-23 ) and the data integrity board (see PM-24).
Implementation Guidance
Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.
No engineering interpretation has been authored for PM-19 yet. This section is architected to receive it — see the Requirements and Assessment sections above for the authoritative NIST source content in the meantime.
Assessment
Assessment Objectives
- a senior agency official for privacy with authority, mission, accountability, and resources is appointed;
- the senior agency official for privacy coordinates applicable privacy requirements;
- the senior agency official for privacy develops applicable privacy requirements;
- the senior agency official for privacy implements applicable privacy requirements;
- the senior agency official for privacy manages privacy risks through the organization-wide privacy program.
Examine
[SELECT FROM: Privacy program documents, including policies, procedures, plans, and reports; public privacy notices, including Federal Register notices; privacy impact assessments; privacy risk assessments; Privacy Act statements; system of records notices; computer matching agreements and notices; contracts, information sharing agreements, and memoranda of understanding; governing requirements, including laws, executive orders, regulations, standards, and guidance; other relevant documents or records].
Interview
[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with privacy program planning and plan implementation responsibilities; organizational personnel with privacy responsibilities; senior agency official for privacy; privacy officials].
Overlays
STIGs & CCIs
No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for PM-19. This section is architected to display, per product: STIG ID, Finding ID, Severity, Title, Description, Check, Fix, CCI, and NIST control mapping — but nothing is populated here until a real DISA STIG/CCI dataset is ingested.
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Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.
Policy
- Privacy program documents, including policies, procedures, plans, and reports
Other Records
- public privacy notices, including Federal Register notices
- privacy impact assessments
- privacy risk assessments
- Privacy Act statements
- system of records notices
- computer matching agreements and notices
- contracts, information sharing agreements, and memoranda of understanding
- governing requirements, including laws, executive orders, regulations, standards, and guidance
- other relevant documents or records