February 20, 2009

DHS Appoints New Chief Privacy Officer

Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, announced the appointment of Mary Ellen Callahan, a partner at the law firm Hogan & Hartson, located in Washington, DC, as the department's Chief Privacy Officer. Her background is in self regulatory privacy policies developed for business purposes. She replaces outgoing Chief Privacy Officer Hugo Teufel. The Chief Privacy Office at the Department of Homeland Security is distinguished as being the first statutorily established position on privacy within the US government.

Data Protection Lawyer Appointed to lead DHS privacy efforts, Dan Kaplan, SC Magazine, February 19, 2009