SHARING WASHINGTON OUTBOUND CABLES

UNCLAS STATE 160266 SIPDIS SIPDIS - FOR COMS AND DCMS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ACOA AMGT AOMS KCCP PINR SUBJECT: SHARING WASHINGTON OUTBOUND CABLES REF: 06 STATE 083673, 06 STATE 089712, 05 STATE 226504, 05 STATE 10700, 04 STATE 99654 ¶1. Drafting Officers are encouraged to use the SIPDIS caption only on those cables deemed appropriate for sharing - such as cable reporting messages, analytical pieces, and policy instructions. SIPDIS content in the NCD system is available to hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors throughout the Federal Government. Accordingly, drafting and approving officers should be aware that posting or making available personal information of American citizens or lawful permanent residents (including Social Security Numbers; information concerning employees, such as travel messages, performance reports, and medical assessments; and arrest reports of American citizens) may violate the Privacy Act and/or new federal requirements on safeguarding Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Posting such information also is prohibited by Intelink's Terms of Use. Additional guidance on Privacy Act and PII is available on the A Bureau's Home Page, Featured Information, click on Privacy Matters, or go to http://a.state.gov/content/privacymatters/ind ex.asp. ¶2. When the SIPDIS caption is placed on a cable, the message is processed by the NCD system and published automatically to a post or Department webpage, and to other databases and search tools that are available to interagency users on SIPRNet. Older archived cables can also be manually uploaded. Currently more than 200 overseas posts are using the SIPDIS caption to share information with other agencies. More than 120,000 cables dating from 1991 are now in the SIPDIS database. ¶3. Extension of the SIPDIS caption to cables originating in the Department is part of a recent upgrade of the Department's NCD system. This NCD upgrade enables faster response times and an improved web interface that allows users to see, at a glance, the relative frequency of particular TAGS (Traffic Analysis by Geography and Subject) used on cables about a subject, or to view all cables with a particular TAGS. ¶4. Users can access the NCD cable display on SIPRNet at http://ncd.state.sgov.gov as well as on the State SIPRNet Home Pages at http://www.state.sgov.gov. If you cannot access these websites via your ClassNet PC, contact your post IT staff to properly configure your ClassNet browser. Questions regarding the NCD system or this Department notice should be directed to SIPDIS_Help@state.sgov.gov. Questions related to privacy issues should be sent to Privacy-DL@state.gov. ¶5. Minimize considered. RICE