Agencies Government Policy

The article by GAO, United States government Accountability office will be critiqued. The title of the article is Federal Agencies Need Policies and procedures for managing and protecting Information They Access and Disseminate. The article gives the reasons that GAO did the study. It also explains the findings that GAO came up with from the study. In addition, some of the recommendation that GAO would give based on the findings about social media are given. The article is written in an objective tone, making the analysis easier and more professional. In this article, it is clear that so far, social media serves a useful purpose for Federal aganecies. One of the main advantages of social media to these agencies is that it enables them to

The policies may differ. However, it is clear that this is one of the main areas that needs regulation. Most of the agencies agree that passing personal information on social media can pose some threats to the people using social media. In the policies, twitter, facebook and youtube are considered the most. This is because to these agencies, these are the most widely used social media sites by the public. Information delivered via these sites should therefore be

It was found that some of the government agencies had separate social media sites for the various subdivisions in the agencies. The security level that was present among the people that were using these sites was also examined. Based on these examination, it was clear that some agencies had better security levels than others, and others were currently working on the security levels in their social media sites (GOA, 2011). Finally, GOA sought out to give some recommendations. Most of these recommendations were given to the agencies depending on the way in which they disseminated information on social media at the time of the study. For most of the agencies, the recommendation was to update their settings, especially on private information (GOA, 2011). Another recommendation was to make sure they conducted risk assessment and documented them to make sure that they knew exactly what security threads they were dealing with (GOA, 2011). This would enable them to come up with better