I’d been looking forward to hearing what one of my favorite advocacy organizations – the Electronic Privacy Information Center – had to say about the Obama Administration’s approach to privacy law and regulation. Today, they issued a “report card” giving the Administration:
- an “Incomplete” for Consumer Privacy,
- A- for Medical Privacy,
- C+ for Civil Liberties, and a
- B for Cyber Security.
Read the full report here (PDF). As Xeni Jardin put it “according to EPIC, Obama is better than Bush so far, but if that’s the yardstick we’re using — boy, are we in deep shit.” I’ve long had low expectations for this (or any) admin with regard to privacy, but that doesn’t make it any more acceptable.
LFS
Were these grades issued before or after Obama called for renewing key provisions of the PATRIOT ACT?