Is This Any Job for a Privacy Office?
CSO, April, 2005 by Daintry Duffy
Nuala O'Connor Kelly is the very model of a modern chief privacy officer. When President Bush signed legislation last November creating CPO positions across the federal government, the new job description was markedly similar to the one that O'Connor Kelly filled as the first-ever CPO of the Department of Homeland Security.
Hired in April 2003, O'Connor Kelly oversees what seems to be a huge operation for other federal departments to emulate. (See our February cover story, "Five Things Every CSO Needs to Know About the Chief Privacy Officer.") More than 450 people report to her on privacy issues. But the reality is that close to 400 of her staffers spend their days reviewing requests made under both the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), rather than...
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