Hillary Clinton Knows an Issue When She Sees One
The survey I conducted in April for the Cyber Security Industry Alliance demonstrated that privacy and data security were poised to become serious political issues in the November elections for Congress. Reinforcing that point is a recent story in The Hill - “The Newspaper for and about the U.S. Congress” - reporting on the recent examples of data breach and the rising stakes for privacy legislation. No less a political bellwether than Senator Hillary Clinton is pointing the way:
…Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)…signaled in an address to the American Constitutional Society that identity theft would be central to her political agenda as 2008 approaches.
Clinton, part of a core group of Senate Democrats who call for strong new security laws in response to the VA breach, said she would introduce a “privacy bill of rights” as part of broader legislation that she called the Protect Act. Clinton’s bill would create a “privacy czar” within the Office of Management and Budget to oversee information protection.
October 8th, 2006 at 12:52 am
[…] I’ve noted that privacy is on the verge of becoming a salient political issue, with cybersecurity likely to come along for the ride even though they are often very different problems. If seniors - the demographic most likely to vote - lose faith in the health information network, politicians will take note. This past April, my poll for the Cyber Security Industry Alliance showed that only 18 percent of seniors thought the health information network worked well compared to 34 percent of young adults. Twenty-three percent of seniors thought the network was vulnerable. I’ll know soon whether that number is increasing. […]