The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will become the first federal agency to adopt the National Institute of Standards and Technology Privacy Framework, the agency announced Tuesday.

In a statement, the CFTC said it will integrate the framework into its enterprise risk portfolio and use it to better manage and communicate privacy risk throughout the agency. “Adopting this framework will put us on the cutting edge of data privacy protection,” said CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert.

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