Wizbang: Foxes Advising Henhouse on Privacy
Wizbang reports that the Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Advisory Board now includes experienced privacy violator and spyware purveyor Claria (formerly Gator). I would add my concerns about panel members from:
- Intel, the company that wanted to put a unique “fingerprint” identifier on each and every Pentium III computer (until public pressure caused them to back off).
- Nationwide Insurance, whose industry thinks it’s perfectly all right to classify drivers as high-risk simply because they have bad credit.
Wizby also wonders why someone from ChoicePoint wasn’t selected. After all, a privacy panel should only have people who don’t give a rip about privacy. Zheesh.
In that vein, I hereby nominate Scott (”You have no privacy. Get over it”) McNealy of Sun Microsystems. He’d be right at home.
