Weekly column: Homeland Security department's paper tiger [priv]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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.

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