Privacy Czar: Past Haunts Present

Wired Is Reporting that a former Clinton administration official in charge of privacy issues warned Friday that the Bush administration risked setting the country back decades on privacy policy if it did not heed the lessons of the past.

\”Don\’t let the anti-terrorism measures of today turn into the anti-communist excesses of decades past,\” Swire said. \”We\’ve seen what abuses in the name of liberty look like — lack of accountability and institutionalized lawlessness. We must assure that does not happen again.\”