Rotenberg, Marc, “The Sui Generis Privacy Agency: How the United States Institutionalized Privacy Oversight After 9-11” (September 28, 2006). Available at SSRN.
“This article looks at the Chief Privacy Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, the President’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Oversight Board, and the Civil Liberties Protection Officer of the Office of the National Intelligence Director. The article explores the circumstances under which the agencies were established and their legislative mandates. It reviews their activities to date and concludes that, measured primarily against their statutory responsibilities, only the DHS Chief Privacy Officer has had any meaningful impact on the privacy practices of the federal government.”
