Government figures out how to grow AND protect privacy.

U.S. May Get a Privacy Czar

The privacy czar, who would be appointed by the president and positioned in the Office of Management and Budget, would hold primary responsibility for privacy policies throughout the federal government. The czar would ensure that technologies procured by the federal government would not erode privacy protections, as designated under the Privacy Act of 1974. The czar would also evaluate legislative and regulatory proposals involving the federal government's collection and use of Americans' personal information. The czar would present an annual report to Congress about each federal agency's activities and violations related to privacy.
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Ari Schwartz, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, said that such officers would establish accountability for government actions, since they could be called to testify for wrongdoing on the part of their agencies.

"No one's going to call up the head of an agency for small ongoing violations of privacy," Schwartz said. "But writing letters to privacy officers or holding chief privacy officers responsible for being willfully negligent of their jobs will be much easier to do."

That's called a scape-goat. How does it hurt the privacy breachers?

It's a great idea as long as they don't just tack on a new position without eliminating an old one. And will they really be on our side? Who's paying their checks?

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