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Privacy Policies on Websites, Applications, and Digital Services

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Requirements NIST SOURCE

Develop and post privacy policies on all external-facing websites, mobile applications, and other digital services, that:

Discussion (NIST Supplemental Guidance)

Organizations post privacy policies on all external-facing websites, mobile applications, and other digital services. Organizations post a link to the relevant privacy policy on any known, major entry points to the website, application, or digital service. In addition, organizations provide a link to the privacy policy on any webpage that collects personally identifiable information. Organizations may be subject to applicable laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, or policies that require the provision of specific information to the public. Organizational personnel consult with the senior agency official for privacy and legal counsel regarding such requirements.

Implementation Guidance

Engineering Interpretation

Original engineering commentary written for this explorer — not NIST source text and not authoritative guidance.

No engineering interpretation has been authored for PM-20(1) 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

NIST SP 800-53A REV 5.2.0

Assessment Objectives

  1. privacy policies are developed and posted on all external-facing websites;
  2. privacy policies are developed and posted on all mobile applications;
  3. privacy policies are developed and posted on all other digital services;
  4. the privacy policies are written in plain language;
  5. the privacy policies are organized in a way that is easy to understand and navigate;
  6. the privacy policies provide the information needed by the public to make an informed decision about whether to interact with the organization;
  7. the privacy policies provide the information needed by the public to make an informed decision about how to interact with the organization;
  8. the privacy policies are updated whenever the organization makes a substantive change to the practices it describes;
  9. the privacy policies include a time/date stamp to inform the public of the date of the most recent changes.

Examine

[SELECT FROM: Privacy program plan; privacy policies on the agency website, mobile applications, and/or other digital services].

Interview

[SELECT FROM: Organizational personnel with privacy program information dissemination responsibilities; organizational personnel with privacy responsibilities].

Test

[SELECT FROM: Organizational procedures and practices for authorizing, conducting, managing, and reviewing personally identifiable information processing; organizational procedures and practices for disseminating privacy program information; mechanisms supporting the dissemination of privacy program information].

Overlays

Showing the OT/ICS overlay for the parent control PM-20 — see the PM-20(1) entries within each baseline below.

OT/ICS Overlay SP 800-82r3

NIST SP 800-82r3 Appendix F, Table 22. Blank baseline means the control/control enhancement is not selected in that initial OT baseline.

LOW

Not applicable at this tier.

MODERATE

  • Base control: Added (beyond standard baseline)
  • Added: (1)

HIGH

Not applicable at this tier.

STIGs & CCIs

No STIG checks or CCI mappings are currently loaded for PM-20(1). 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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Evidence

Potential Evidence — Derived

Categorized from the SP 800-53A "Examine"/"Test" artifact list above by keyword — not an authoritative NIST evidence list.

Policy

  • Privacy program plan
  • privacy policies on the agency website, mobile applications, and/or other digital services

Testing

  • Organizational procedures and practices for authorizing, conducting, managing, and reviewing personally identifiable information processing
  • organizational procedures and practices for disseminating privacy program information
  • mechanisms supporting the dissemination of privacy program information