>Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:00:24 -0500 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Bush should pick chief privacy officer straightaway, groups say > >[If these worthy groups and academics were interested only in encouraging >the Feds to think more seriously about how agencies should approach >privacy, there would be nothing to criticize and everything to applaud. >But there is the potential for Bush to pick someone who is more interested >in upping regulations of the private sector, something that is not as >clearly a good thing. --Declan] > >*********** > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Public Interest Groups and Academics Call on Bush Administration >to Fill Privacy Position >Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 09:18:13 -0400 (EDT) > >Public Interest Groups and Academics Call on Bush Administration to Fill >Privacy Position > >In a letter sent today, a diverse group of advocacy organizations and >academics called on the Director of the Office and Management and budget to >hire a new Chief Privacy Counselor. > >The signers expressed concern that privacy would lose the momentum that it >had gained at the end of last year. "We are concerned that without these >central staff resources dedicated solely to privacy, we will return to a >time when privacy was an afterthought in government and commercial data >processing; education of the different agencies took years rather than >months; and OMB staff knew little about the larger privacy issues effecting >the country," the letter read. > >The signers want the new counselor to oversee the implementation of existing >privacy law as it applies to the federal government and advise the President >on privacy policy in the public and private sectors. > >"Despite all that we have heard about the importance of privacy recently in >both the public and private sectors from Congress and in the polls," said >Center for Democracy and Technology Senior Policy Analyst Ari Schwartz, "we >are still waiting for the Administration to appoint leadership on the >issue." > >The organizational signers included The Center for Democracy and Technology, >Consumer Action, the Free Congress Foundation, OMB Watch, Private Citizen, >and Privacy Foundation along with seven important academic experts Mary J. >Culnan, Bentley College; Rod Dixon, Rutgers University Law School; Jerry >Kang, UCLA School of Law; Deirdre K. Mulligan, Boalt Law School, University >of California, Berkeley ; Joel R. Reidenberg, Fordham University School of >Law; Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School; and David E. Sorkin, The John >Marshall Law School, Chicago. > >The full letter is available online at: >http://www.cdt.org/privacy/010412omb.shtml > >Contact: Ari Schwartz >Center for Democracy and Technology >202-637-9800 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >---------------------------------- >CDT Update Subscription Information > >E-mail questions, comments, or requests to subscribe or unsubscribe >to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call (202) 637-9800. > >Detailed information about online civil liberties issues may be found >at http://www.cdt.org/ > >----------------------------------- >Ari Schwartz >Policy Analyst >Center for Democracy and Technology >1634 Eye Street NW, Suite 1100 >Washington, DC 20006 >202 637 9800 >fax 202 637 0968 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.cdt.org >-----------------------------------
