A federal privacy watchdog is poised to come back from the dead

A little-known agency tasked with ensuring the federal government’s counterterrorism efforts don’t trample on privacy and civil liberties has long been hobbled by vacancies that rendered it at times ineffective. Now, it’s poised for a revival.

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On Monday, the Senate confirmed by voice vote the nominations of two new members for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), which was created by Congress in 2004 in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“These two nominees reflect not only that bipartisan structure but our bipartisan commitment to ensure that we protect the nation’s security and remain vigilant to America’s civil liberties,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said during a markup last week of PCLOB nominees Sharon Bradford Franklin and Beth Ann Williams.

The reemergence of PCLOB as a fully functioning agency could bring fresh oversight to the federal government’s deployment of technologies like facial recognition and techniques like social media monitoring — the kind of scrutiny advocates have been clamoring for.

.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/08/federal-privacy-watchdog-is-poised-come-back-dead/

A federal privacy watchdog is poised to come back from the dead

A federal privacy watchdog is poised to come back from the dead

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