Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Fox to guard chicken coop The first privacy official at the new Department of Homeland Security is a former chief privacy officer for embattled data mining company DoubleClick. 34-year old Nuala O'Connor Kelly is currently an attorney in the Commerce Department. As Declan McCullagh reports, Congress required that the secretary appoint an official to ensure that new technologies sustain privacy protections and to verify that the agency's massive databases operate within federal guidelines. I don't know about you, but I certainly feel comforted knowing those massive databases will be under the protection of someone whose former company devised multiple and deceptive ways surreptitiously to track Net surfers and then sold the data to the highest bidder. Perhaps we should just go ahead and make Tariq Aziz the new interim governor of Iraq. 5:35:50 PM    Oh yeah? []