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Chief Privacy Officer Named for the U.S. Department of Commerce Today

Government Technology today reported Robert C. Cresanti was appointed CPO along with his other current responsibilities as under secretary for technology.  I could not find an announcement about this on the Dept of Commerce site, however; I was hoping to get more info than provided within the report.

It is good they are appointing a CPO.  However, U.S. federal privacy and data protection governance would benefit from one CPO over the entire government; basically adding a cabinet position.  Then this position could coordinate privacy and data protection activities through CPOs assigned to each of the government agencies.  This similar type of system seems to work well for Canada. 

The scattered and uncoordinated data protection and privacy approach currently taken does not result in consistent regulatory enforcement or unified federal laws.  Some agencies have rigorous privacy enforcement activities while there seem to be none within other agencies.

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.