The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is set to finalize an interagency report that will provide guidance for federal agencies on assessing and mitigating digital privacy risks, Fierce Government IT reports. “Cybersecurity has come a long way in the last 10 years,” said NIST’s Sean Brooks, while “privacy has really lagged behind.” Brooks added that the framework aims to guide privacy initiatives from compliance to engineering and development staff “and even up to executive staff who are trying to deal with risks and make decisions about funding in order to mitigate those risks.” Transportation Department Chief Data Officer Dan Morgan said, “We can build all the beautiful digital services that we want, but if people don’t trust them, they’re not going to use them.”
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