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[Clips] Homeland Security privacy chief quits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.A. Hettinga)
Fri Oct 7 15:11:38 2005
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The Boston Globe
Homeland Security privacy chief quits
By Sara Kehaulani Goo and Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | September 30,
2005
WASHINGTON -- Nuala O'Connor Kelly, who won praise for protecting
Americans' privacy rights at the Department of Homeland Security but drew
criticism for her office's lack of independence, stepped down yesterday
after two years as the department's first chief privacy officer.
The ombudsman-like job was created by Congress in 2002 to uphold the
Privacy Act within a department that launched a series of ambitious
security programs that affect millions of people, including airline
travelers, truck drivers, and foreign visitors.
Many groups that advocate greater privacy protections feared the chief
privacy officer could have become a rubber stamp for the administration's
homeland security agenda, but they credited O'Connor Kelly with
establishing an office that won respect within and outside the
administration.
Former and current colleagues said O'Connor Kelly used a combination of her
forceful personality and support of Tom Ridge, the department's first
secretary, to ensure that her staff of 400 employees held its own inside
the department.
''O'Connor Kelly has done a commendable job as Homeland Security's first
chief privacy officer considering the limited independence of the job as it
was created by Congress," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American
Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty Project said in a statement.
''But even as strong a privacy officer as O'Connor Kelly could only do so
much with the powers that she was given."
O'Connor Kelly has accepted a position as head of privacy issues for
General Electric Co.
Maureen Cooney, her chief of staff, has been named acting chief privacy
officer.
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