Jamie Danker had a distinguished privacy career in government both at GAO and DHS before moving to the private sector. In this episode, she makes connections between privacy laws and rules of conduct that bind the federal government and expectations for private companies. The federal government has had a privacy law since 1974 and the E-Government Act has required privacy impact assessments since its enactment in 2002.  Federal government agencies are bound by statute to treat information obtained from or related to private citizens with care and not to accumulate information that is not needed to perform a governmental function.