9/11 Commission Progress report highlights information policy shortcomings

This entry was originally published at Danny Weitzner - Open Internet Policy

Earlier this week the former (but still active) 9/11 Commission issued a report card on progress in implementing the Commission’s recommendations. The summary gives respectable marks to various military and law enforcement objectives, but not even ‘Gentleman’s Cs’ to information policy priorities such as better information sharing between government agencies (grade = D), putting a privacy oversight board in place (grade = D), effective airline passenger pre-screening (grade = F) and developing real privacy guidelines (grade = D) for all this much-discussed information sharing. These are all areas that require not only public policy leadership by Congress and the Administration, but also creative technical solutions that enable transparency and accontability of the use of personal information in the important, but very privacy sensitive area of homeland security.