Dizziness by accumulated piles of damaged standards, you could have missed Presidential executive ordinance Issued on March 20. It is called: “stopping waste, fraud and abuse by eliminating information silos.” Basically, it gives the federal government the right to consolidate all non -classified materials from various governmental databases. Compared to the Educational Agencies supporting life in the name of waste and fraud, this may seem a relatively petite action. In any case, the order was overshadowed by Signalgate. But it’s worth looking.
At first glance, the order seems reasonable. Both the noun and the verb, the word itself silo Recalls waste. Insulating information in silos change the benefits of data collection. When you find knowledge about the silo, there is a danger that decisions will be made with incomplete information. Sometimes high-priced projects are unnecessarily reproduced, because teams do not realize that the same work is performed elsewhere in the enterprise. Lecturers of the Business School with a feast with stories in which corporate silos led to a disaster. If only the right hand knew what the left was doing!
What’s more, if you intend to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, breaking silos has a clear benefit. For example, what if Real estate company Told lenders and insurers that the property was worth a certain amount, but informed what was “clearly … fraudulent valuations”, According to a judge of the Supreme Court in New York. If investigators and prosecutors could get these numbers out of silos, they could reveal such Skulduggers, even if the perpetrator has completed the consequences.
But before we announce a war with silos, stick to. As for confidential personal data, especially the data held by the government, silos serve the purpose. One obvious reason: privacy. Some types of information, such as medical files and tax declarations, are justified as a holiday – private toe for merging with other entries. The law provides special protection that is narrow to this information. But this order could force the agencies to transfer it to every federal official who is elected by the president.
Then is the argument of the large brother – privacy experts are rightly feared that the government could consolidate all information about someone in a detailed document, which would be a violation of privacy. “The basic premise for the protection of privacy for each government level is that the data can be collected only for a specific, legal, identifying purpose that can be identified, and then use only in this legal purpose, not treated as essentially as a Bank Piggy Bank of Data, to which the Federal Government can return at any time,” says John Davisson, a senior counselor at the Electronic Information Center.
There are also practical reasons for silos. Filling in your mission to separate tax revenues from all sources subject to taxes, says IRS Payment option In the case of income from Crookera. The information is silenced from other government sources, such as the Department of Justice, which can adore fishing trips to guess who plays Bucks, without revealing where the loot comes from. Similarly, those that are not in the country They pay their taxes commonlyBy transferring to federal billions of dollars, despite the fact that many of these immigrants cannot access services or receive social insurance. If the silo has been opened, forget to collect these taxes. Another example: a list of population. According to the law, this information is mutedBecause if it were not so, people would be reluctant to cooperate and all effort could be threatened. (Although tax and medical data are considered confidential, the order encourages agency heads to re -examine the provisions regarding access to information).