The legislation itself: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/privacyamendment.071002.gif --- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-942752.html Privacy central to Bush security plan By Declan McCullagh July 10, 2002, 8:15 AM PT WASHINGTON--President Bush's proposed Department of Homeland Security is likely to get its own privacy czar. A panel in the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on a plan to add a chief privacy officer to the planned agency. A draft of the legislation seen by CNET News.com states that the Secretary of Homeland Security must appoint a privacy officer to ensure that new technologies "sustain and do not erode" privacy protections and to verify that the agency's massive databases operate within federal guidelines. On Tuesday, the Bush administration told a House subcommittee that it was open to the idea, which key legislators have endorsed. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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