AP: Privacy advocates call security board skewed

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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050225-111610-3221r.htm
February 26, 2005

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Privacy advocates say a committee set up recently to advise the Homeland Security Department on privacy issues amounts to little more than a fox guarding a chicken coop.
One member works for a conglomerate whose subsidiary turned over personal records of airline passengers to a government contractor.
Another works for a defense contractor from which thieves stole personal information on thousands of employees, making them vulnerable to identity theft.
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But privacy advocates say the list doesn't include what they call the "usual suspects" from their own ranks.
"The strong privacy advocacy community seems underrepresented on this list," said Daniel Solove, a George Washington University Law School professor and author of a book on privacy.
"The chickens have quite a number of foxes in there," said Bill Scannell, who manages the privacy Web site UnSecureFlight.com