protecting Privacy in the Executive Branch Federal agencies have"generally complied with key requirement and guidance pertaining to...privacy," and compliance with the Privacy Act is "generally high, " with 71 percent of agencies enforcing "the requirement that personal information should be complete, accurate, relevant, and timely before it is disclosed to a nonfederal organization" In addition, OMB has issued at least a half-dozen memoranda that protect against identity theft, a crime over which seven federal agencies have some jurisdiction.