TSA Privacy Officer

Overview
The TSA Privacy Officer is responsible for implementing the policies and directives of the DHS Chief Privacy Officer, and ensuring that TSA programs are fully consonant with all privacy requirements.

The TSA Privacy Officer has been closely involved in the planning and development of TSA programs that require the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, ensuring that the information collected is: (1) necessary; (2) properly stored; (3) securely transmitted; (4) disclosed only to those individuals with a “need to know”; and (5) that there are sufficient redress mechanisms in place for those individuals who are affected by the collection.