Large Budget Increase for HSD Privacy Office
Congress provided the Homeland Security Department's (HSD) Privacy Office $35 million in funding for fiscal year 2005, which is five times larger than the last fiscal year. This information was disclosed by DHS chief of privacy Nuala O'Conner Kelly at the ID Conference Expo held in Washington DC. The staff of the DHS privacy office is 450. Ms. Kelly said that they would be working on ways to evaluate data collection technologies and information sharing.
DHS privacy office grapples with RFID, biometrics, Government Computer News, November 16, 2004
