Navy CIO Tweaks Social Policy

The Navy has started to develop its own take on the Defense Departmentwide social media policy for the Navy and Marine Corps released in February. Navy Department Chief Information Officer Rob Carey said in a blog post on March 26 that he expected the service's policy to be released real soon.

Carey said in his post -- a must read, as far as I am concerned -- that he is "a strong proponent for the use of Internet-based collaborative tools" but emphasized access to social media by everyone in the Navy carries with it "the responsibility to ensure that certain measures are taken to keep our networks and our people safe."

This means, he wrote, that "users must protect their information online, be aware of who and what they interact with, and abide by existing regulations on ethics, operational security and privacy."

In other words, Carey expects grownups to act like grownups online.

How refreshing.