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In Federal e-Security We Trust? Not a Chance

Eric J. Sinrod writes on C|Net News:

...a privacy think tank called the Ponemon Institute has issued its 2006 Privacy Trust Study of the United States Government. The report ranks public perception of the privacy protection practices of federal agencies, based on responses to various survey questions. More than 70 agencies were evaluated, and each was assigned a privacy trust score by factoring together positive and negative survey responses.

Let's turn to the bad news first. The least-trusted federal agencies, starting from the bottom, are: the Department of Homeland Security, the Transport Security Administration, the CIA, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Attorney General, the National Security Agency, the Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

This is sobering, as these are not minor governmental outposts. We're instead talking about critical agencies, with vital missions, that handle very sensitive data.

posted by Fergie @ 3/01/2006 07:58:00 AM