Rosenzweig Now Chairman of DHS Privacy Board

An anonymous reader writes "Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer and prominent proponent of the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness project, has been appointed the first chairman of the Department of Homeland Security's privacy board. This follows the appointment of an executive of Gator to the board. Lee Tien, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that, rather than viewing protection of privacy as priority, Rosenzweig 'tends to view privacy as something to be circumvented.' Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?"

Are the foxes guarding the henhouse?

[jmcmunn]

Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?

Why no, it seems that the Gator is guarding the henhouse in this case.

They're defending America!

[tezza]

They heard concerns about an Invasion of Privacy.

They have selected these Patriots to ensure that there is no risk of Privacy invading The United States of America. Over their dead bodies, there will be none of this Privacy in America.

Re:Sir Humphrey Appleby

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes but, The fact that [Paul Rosenzweig] needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, and therefore those of us who needed to advise and inform felt that the information that we needed as to whether or not to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known, and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not yet known, or needed.

Foxes guarding the henhouse?

[handy_vandal]

Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?

Guarding is a cover story. The foxes are actually impregnating the hens -- breeding strange fox/chicken hybrids -- merging government and privacy into a single organism.

I, for one, do not welcome our privacy-sucking overlords.

-kgj

Re:Freedom is Slavery?

[charlie_vernacular]

True, very true.

(Places tin hat on head)

I can't help feeling that the power elites won't need to seize power from the people. The people will be given the bread and circuses they want, remain apathetic, and simply hand power over on a silver platter.

And then I wonder whether the failure to capture Bin Laden is deliberate. As long as he's out there, the Blairs and Bushes of this world can claim to be defending us from the Great Enemy (Al Quaeda becomes equivalent to The Brotherhood, a possibly fictional enemy, in Orwell's "1984"), while they gradually erode our freedoms.

At some point there'll be an announcement saying Bin Laden has died, but has been replaced by someone even more dangerous, from whom they need to protect us by taking yet more of our freedoms.

(Removes tin hat from head).

Re:Are the foxes guarding the henhouse?

[caseydk]

Somehow these appointments remind me of 1984.

Man you're old. I can't remember anything earlier than '85 or so.

Re:Are the foxes guarding the henhouse?

[Anonymous Coward]

As far as you know, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.