Number: RS21851
Title: Privacy Protection: Mandating New Arrangements to Implement and Assess Federal Privacy Policy and Practice
Authors: Harold C. Relyea, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: When Congress enacted the Privacy Act of 1974, it established a temporary national study commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of privacy policy and practice. While the panel subsequently produced a landmark July 1977 report, its recommendations were not legislatively implemented. Nonetheless, interest in creating new arrangements for better implementing and assessing federal privacy policies and practices continued, as the recent establishment of a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and assignment of privacy officer responsibilities in certain departments and agencies attest. This report tracks active legislative efforts (H.R. 1; S. 4; S. 332) to further privacy policy in the 110th Congress.
Pages: 6
Date: August 23, 2007