US Congress Committee Talking About Privacy

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 13, 2004 @01:12AM from the time-for-action-nearly-upon-us dept.

rm007 writes "The US House of Representatives Judicial Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law is holding hearings on the Privacy Officer for the Department of Homeland Security and approved the Defense of Privacy Act. The DHS Privacy Officer hearings are to examine how well the incumbent, Nuala O'Connor Kelly, is doing and whether the statute creating the position sufficiently addresses concerns about the handling of personally identifiable information. This should be worth watching. Wired News has an article that covers both of these as does GovExec.com, a newsletter for senior Federal employees."

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Re:Patriot Act !~ /privacy/ by G.+W.+Bush+Junior · 2004-02-13 01:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Does anyone see anything oxymoronic about the people that gave us the Patriot Act talking about privacy?

Yes, I'm sure you're the only one.
And I think it's double plus good that they have a privacy officer!

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"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." -George H.W. Bush
Re:Privacy by fenix+down · 2004-02-13 03:21 · Score: 3, Funny

something to hide that'd make *others* cry in disgust and/or laughter.

Yeah, that sums up my life pretty well, too.