NIST also offered a process for federal agencies to address privacy-related issues in their Internet-facing data infrastructure, including cloud computing and big data systems, the report said.
Naomi Lefkovitz, a senior privacy policy adviser at NIST, told Nextgov that she believes the guidelines could help the departments of Transportation and Homeland Security as well as other agencies that implement public safety sensors.
According to Sternstein, the document also offers a mathematical formula for agencies to determine the likelihood that a system will put citizen privacy at risk.