Rosenzweig Chosen as Privacy Committee Chair

Paul Rosenzweig will be the chairman of the the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. Rosenzweig, is a senior legal research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. In the past he has supported the DOD project Total Information Awareness and other initiatives, for which he will be criticized by privacy advocates.

Still, it is the President's Committee. What did people expect?

The Committee unanimously selected Lisa Sotto, partner and leader of the Regulatory Privacy and Information Management Practice Group at Hunton and Williams as the committee’s vice chairwoman.

Rosenzweig said he wants tol maximize security and privacy as much as possible. Lisa Sotto said she would not compromise U.S. security. But "our national security must not come at the ultimate cost of the freedoms we cherish so much."