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Privacy Czar Has Private Lunch, Not Privacy Lunch

From the "You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself" Department...

Ryan Singel points out (on 27B Stroke 6) an EPIC Alert snippet which shows just how much the U.S Department of Commerce's Privacy Czar really cares about privacy:

Mr. Cresanti [Robert C. Cresanti, the Commerce Department's new privacy chief] attended more than 25 meetings with business lobbyists and corporate representatives across the country, including business lunches and dinners with DaimlerChrysler, Pitney Bowes and the Council on Competitiveness, whose members include executives from Wal-Mart and IBM. He also attended day-long business meetings in Detroit, Michigan; Elyria, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois.

However, the top privacy official at the Commerce Department did not attend one pre-scheduled meeting with privacy advocates in Washington, DC.

Cresanti had agreed to speak with the Privacy Coalition on September 8 at 1:15 p.m., after another meeting at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. But his appointment at NIST, scheduled to end at noon, was completed earlier than anticipated and he went back to his office. When Cresanti did not arrive at the privacy meeting, the coalition was informed that he had made an impromptu decision to have lunch instead. Cresanti has not rescheduled.

posted by Fergie @ 11/16/2006 05:58:00 PM