Chief Privacy Officer

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-000652",
  "term": "Chief Privacy Officer",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. A senior official designated by the head of each agency to have agency-wide responsibilities for privacy, including the implementation of privacy protections; compliance with federal laws, regulations, and policies related to privacy; the management of privacy risks at the agency; and a central policy-making role in the agency’s development and evaluation of legislative, regulatory, and other policy proposals.\n\n2. The senior official designated by the head of each agency who has agency-wide responsibility for privacy, including implementing privacy protections; ensuring compliance with federal laws, regulations, and policies related to privacy; managing privacy risks at the agency; and filling a central policy-making role in the agency’s development and evaluation of legislative, regulatory, and other policy proposals.\n\n3. Person responsible for ensuring that an agency complies with privacy requirements, manages privacy risks, and considers the privacy impacts of all agency actions and policies that involve personal information.\n\n4. See Senior Agency Official for Privacy.\n\n5. The senior organizational official with overall organization-wide responsibility for information privacy issues.\n\n6. The senior official, designated by the head of each agency, who has agency-wide responsibility for privacy, including implementation of privacy protections; compliance with Federal laws, regulations, and policies relating to privacy; management of privacy risks at the agency; and a central policy-making role in the agency’s development and evaluation of legislative, regulatory, and other policy proposals.",
  "abbreviation": "CPO",
  "synonyms": [
    "Senior Agency Official for Privacy"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-50r1",
    "NIST SP 800-63-4; NIST SP 800-63A-4",
    "NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 4 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5",
    "NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 [Superseded]; NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 4 [Superseded]",
    "NISTIR 8062",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/chief-privacy-officer/"
}