Shaping a Culture of Privacy in the DoD
Shaping a Culture of Privacy in the DoD
by Michael E. Reheuser
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I read with interest your December 6th article entitled The Military’s Cultural Disregard for Personal Information. The authors have done well to bring to light a continuing challenge not only for the Department of Defense, but for all government agencies. They rightly point out the overreliance on Social Security Numbers as a common identifier and the risks which its pervasiveness present to military personnel both at home and deployed across the globe.
For more than 30 years the Defense Privacy Office — now Defense Privacy and Civil Liberties Office (DPCLO) — has worked across the DoD Components to address a myriad of risks to personal information. Over that time the Department has instituted numerous policies to protect the privacy and secure the records of its personnel and their dependents, sometimes revolutionizing entire business practices in the process. Today the Department faces just such a watershed moment.
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Michael Reheuser is the Director of the Defense Privacy and Civil Liberties Office (DPCLO) and DoD’s Deputy Civil Liberties Officer. Before joining the DPCLO, he served as an Associate Deputy General Counsel in the DoD Office of General Counsel where he was responsible for all FOIA litigation involving the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and provided legal advice to DoD components on FOIA and Privacy Act matters. Before coming to DoD, he was a partner in the Virginia law firm, Jordan Coyne and Savits, L.L.P. where he focused on complex litigation in state and federal court. Mr. Reheuser spent more than twenty-five years in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, retiring in 2009.
