Bush Administration Plans Privacy Czar For Homeland Security

Jul 10, 2002 •

Anthony Pell

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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. . . 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.

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