re: the privacy and civil liberties oversight provided for in the EO.
[Section 5](b) The Chief Privacy Officer and the Officer for Civil
Rights and Civil Liberties of the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) shall assess the privacy and civil liberties risks of the
functions and programs undertaken by DHS as called for in this order
and shall recommend to the Secretary ways to minimize or mitigate such
risks, in a publicly available report, to be released within 1 year of
the date of this order.
As Shava pointed out, the DHS Officer for Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties is currently Tamara Kessler. You may recall that the DHS
Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was in the news just last week.
Wired (Feb 8) - "DHS Watchdog OKs 'Suspicionless' Seizure of Electronic
Devices Along Border":
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/
The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has
concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their
electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any
reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.
The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it
would conduct a “Civil Liberties Impact Assessment” of its
suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic
devices “within 120 days.” More than three years later, the DHS office
of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published a two-page executive
summary of its findings.
“We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have
reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an
electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant
civil rights/civil liberties benefits,” the executive summary said.
Here's that executive summary, with the reviewing official listed as
Tamara Kessler.
http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/crcl-border-search-impact-assessment_01-29-13_1.pdf
As Joseph said, we'll see if this oversight means much.
gf
On 2/13/13 10:12 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
Andy Greenberg of Forbes wrote a story on this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/02/12/president-obamas-cybersecurity-executive-order-scores-much-better-than-cispa-on-privacy/
NK
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Shava Nerad <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Wed Feb 13 09:55:22 2013, Gregory Foster wrote:
> Here's the President's Executive Order, embargoed last night
until
> delivery of the SOTU:
>
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/executive-order-improving-critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity
>
>
> Section 5 addresses "Privacy and Civil Liberties
Protections" for the
> information that will be exchanged between critical
infrastructure
> providers and the DHS/USG.
One quibble: the EO is mostly about flows from govt. to
private sector
and since there is no immunity provided like under other
legislative
proposals, it seems reasonable that sharing in the other
direction will
be circumspect. Would love to hear other thoughts on this.
Glad to see
a section on privacy although we'll have to wait to see if
that ends up
meaning much. best, Joe
Well, it has a provision for full disclosure in a report with a
classified sidecar. *ahem* I mean, come on.
*heh*
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