Data Security Debate on News.com

by on October 24, 2005

This week, I’m debating some folks on data security regulation at CNET News. com. Could be interesting and informative.

So far, the debate has transmogrified, at the hand of News.com’s editors, from data security regulation into “IDENTITY CRISIS” and my first post was provocatively (mis-)named “Why should people trust the industry?” – a question that I think is off-point and needlessly loaded. An inauspicious start but, still, check it out.

Highlight: California State Senator Joe Simitian calls regulating a “duty.”

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About Jim Harper

Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.

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