Friday, May 29, 2009

US gov't panel calls for new privacy rules - PC World

The U.S. government needs to rewrite the rules it has been using for 35 years to govern its use of personal data by focusing on new technologies for storing and retrieving data, a government advisory board recommended.

It's time for the U.S. Congress to overhaul the Privacy Act of 1974 by revamping arcane privacy notices called systems of records notices (SORNs), by requiring chief privacy officers at 24 major U.S. agencies and by creating a privacy.gov site where privacy notices from all agencies are available, members of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) said Thursday.