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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ari Schwartz
202-637-9800
ari@cdt.org
April 16 - 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 affecting 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/010416omb.shtml.
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