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VA Seeks Small Businesses for Web-Based Data Investigation Tool to Fight Fraud U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Business Oversight (OBO) Program Integrity Office (PIO) is seeking qualified small businesses to provide a web-based data investigation tool Original Set Aside: Total Small Business Set-Aside (FAR 19.5) Product Service Code: R702 - SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: DATA COLLECTION NAICS Code:519290 - Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services What the VA Needs: A real-time or near real-time searchable web-based database of public and healthcare data. The tool should help identify potential fraud perpetrators against Veterans and the VA. Features should include: Public record searches by name, SSN, tax ID, NPI, etc. Cross-referencing data for analysis. Downloadable reports. Real-time/near real-time data updates. Technical support during business hours (Central Time). The tool must be accessible for 20 users. https://lnkd.in/eX3tjneA #SmallBusiness #VeteranBusiness #GovernmentContracts #VA #FraudPrevention #PublicRecords #SourcesSoughtNotice #SmallBiz #GovCon #VOSB #SDVOSB #VetsFirst #VAVetsFirst #SetAside #MarketResearch #RequestForInformation #dataanalysis #financialanalysis #dataforensics #healthcaredata #healthrecords

While we all are waiting for more clarity on the DPDP Act 2023, businesses should start working on the creation of Data Inventory. This would help you with many things including: 1. Tracking the flow of data being collected by you. 2. Analysing the sensitivity of Data being processed by you e.g. Health Records, Biometric Data, Financial Details. 3. Identifying the internal team and vendors who holds the data, (in a case when you receive a request from individuals) 4. Listing the impacted Data Principals, when a breach occurs and you are required to notify the Board as well as each affected Data Principal. While we are waiting for the notification for the identification of 'Significant Data Fiduciary' (and there would be certain additional obligations), Data Inventory can help you in being one step ahead for any unexpected requirement. #dataprivacy #dpdpa

10000? I don’t believe these figures are accurate in the slightest https://lnkd.in/eGf3rktM

It will be interesting to see what mechanism the CPPA comes up with to allow residents to make the request for deletion and how data brokers prepare to comply ahead of the August 2026 deadline. https://lnkd.in/e9s2fWMg

Data is essential to meeting customer needs, and responding to sudden market shifts and unforeseen events. That’s why data protection should be on your mind. https://bit.ly/3v0VhGT

A new report found that it is easy to buy personal data on U.S. servicemembers online, where it can cost as little as one cent to obtain records through data brokers. Read the story: https://lnkd.in/gpeyefDP

#CDR - IMO - the model always needed to be non-sectoral and truly "Consumer-Centric" for the CDR to fly as an exciting economic driver, as per the many consultations we presented in the early stages of policy formation. The consumer as the rightful gatekeeper being placed at the center of their regained/synced data enables permissioned personal data to flow with compliance controls, privacy and security embedded. As Australia's CDR faltered we looked to the EU markets advancing and with our www.digi.me model WDX has enabled a "Patient Centric" Unified eHealth Viewer as a market exemplar. With a few tweaks the #CDR can be corrected. FYI Daniel McAuliffe. #DataIntermediaries #DataPortability #HumanCentric #DigitalDemocracy

US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds: Jacob Knutson reports via Axios: Sensitive, highly detailed personal data for thousands of active-duty and veteran U.S. military members can be purchased for as little as one cent per name through data broker websites, according to a new study (PDF) published on Monday by Duke University researchers. [...] The data about military personnel purchased as part of the study included full names, physical and email addresses, health and financial information and details about their ethnicity, religious practices and political affiliation. In some cases, the information also included whether the person owned or rented a home, was married or had children. The children's ages and sexes were accessible, too. The researchers bought data on up to around 45,000 military personnel for between $0.12 to $0.32 per record. They also bought data belonging to 5,000 friends and family members of military personnel. Larger data purchases of over 1.5 million service members were available for as little as $0.01 per record from at least one broker the researchers contacted. The researchers called on Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law and for regulatory agencies like the Federal Trade Commission to develop rules to govern military personnel data purchases. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

📢 #RequestForInformation: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service is seeking information on "𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁." We are seeking to optimize and scale Treasury's existing data analytics capabilities 📊 to support federal agencies and federally funded state administered programs in identifying and preventing financial #fraud - that results in improper payments. 📅 Interested organizations should submit capability statements for their solution(s) or service(s) by 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟒, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒. 🔗Click here for details: https://ow.ly/kMie50QTnrV #Fraud #ImproperPayments #PaymentIntegrity #IndustryDay

US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds: Jacob Knutson reports via Axios: Sensitive, highly detailed personal data for thousands of active-duty and veteran U.S. military members can be purchased for as little as one cent per name through data broker websites, according to a new study (PDF) published on Monday by Duke University researchers. [...] The data about military personnel purchased as part of the study included full names, physical and email addresses, health and financial information and details about their ethnicity, religious practices and political affiliation. In some cases, the information also included whether the person owned or rented a home, was married or had children. The children's ages and sexes were accessible, too. The researchers bought data on up to around 45,000 military personnel for between $0.12 to $0.32 per record. They also bought data belonging to 5,000 friends and family members of military personnel. Larger data purchases of over 1.5 million service members were available for as little as $0.01 per record from at least one broker the researchers contacted. The researchers called on Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy law and for regulatory agencies like the Federal Trade Commission to develop rules to govern military personnel data purchases. Read more of this story at Slashdot.