FC: Capitol Hill considers privacy czar for Homeland Security agency

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

The legislation itself:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/privacyamendment.071002.gif 

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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-942752.html
   
   Privacy central to Bush security plan
   By Declan McCullagh 

   July 10, 2002, 8:15 AM PT
   WASHINGTON--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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