Privacy advocate calls NIST guide 'scalable and testable' to cybersecurity framework

A new National Institute for Standards and Technology report on privacy engineering protocols for federal data systems follows a similar “scalable and testable” approach laid out in the NIST cybersecurity framework, according to a Jan. 14 blog post by Accessnow.org.

“The central question of the report is simple,”writes Amie Stepanovich, a policy manager at the privacy group AccessNow. “Is it possible to approach data privacy the same way we approach data security?” asks Stepanovich, concluding: “The authors answer that...