http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5660795.html Sidelining Homeland Security's privacy chief April 11, 2005, 4:00 AM PT By Declan McCullagh The Department of Homeland Security's privacy officer can't do her job. You can thank Congress for that strange state of affairs. When politicians were concocting the massive bureaucracy a few years ago, they handed the privacy officer impressive-sounding tasks such as "assuring" that new technologies do not erode privacy and "evaluating" the impact of new government programs. But Congress also neglected to give the job holder the power to twist arms and actually investigate privacy violations. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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