February 29, 2024 The Postal Service wants employees and contractors to know that the requirements under the Privacy Act of 1974 also apply to the organizationâs pilot programs. The Privacy Act sets protections for personal information that USPS maintains in a âsystem of records,â which is any file, database or program from which the information…
The Postal Service wants employees to know that the organization keeps their health information confidential. This includes employees who contract COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The Rehabilitation Act and the Privacy Act, two federal laws, require agencies to keep specific employee medical information confidential and to share it only in very limited…
This is the latest version of PS Form 3971 and it includes updated Hatch Act (partisan political activity) and Privacy Act (collection and disclosure) information statements. All earlier versions of this form are outdated and should be recycled. Click Here for the October 2017 PS Form 3971 in a “fillable” PDF
Postal Service employees who plan to take leave should use only the October 2017 version of PS Form 3971, Request for or Notification of Absence. All earlier versions of this form are outdated and should be recycled. This change took effect Nov. 1. The current PS Form 3971 forms included updated Hatch Act and Privacy…
The Postal Service keeps employeesâ phone numbers and email addresses in a Privacy Act system of records called General Personnel Records (USPS 100.000). The Privacy Act authorizes disclosure from this system âfor routine uses.â Routine uses are defined as disclosures that are compatible with the purpose for which the information was collected, in other words,…
For over a year now, I have been inquiring about Privacy Act violations in the Springfield, Massachusetts Installation. I believe employees’ rights to privacy, medical records, as well as Injury Compensation records are being violated. We do not have anyone designated in our Installation because when they combined Springfield under Connecticut, a new district, they shut…
About 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the past 2 years alone, according to IBM. Yes, we live in the era of Big Data. Data is vital to our work as an OIG. We use data analytics â including data mining, risk assessment models, and predictive analytics â…
