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Homeland Security Privacy Officer Leaves for Private Sector

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's first privacy chief stepped down on Friday amid praise from civil-liberties groups--and regret that Congress didn't prescribe more power to her position. Nuala O'Connor Kelly, appointed by then-Secretary Tom Ridge in April 2003, plans to start as General Electric's Washington-based chief privacy leader and senior counsel in early to mid-October.

Homeland Security privacy chief leaves for GE, CNet News, September 30, 2005.