The U.S. government will be able to...
The U.S. government will be able to protect privacy even as it moves forward with cybersecurity protections, said Jane Holl Lute, deputy secretary of Homeland Security. “Only Facebook really knows everybody’s birthday,” she said at an event Friday sponsored by…
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Google and Bloomberg. “So when we talk about this, we are really entering into a new era of our information, ownership, we're thinking every day about how to operate, how to keep this country safe, secure, and resilient, while protecting and preserving your rights.” Lute cited the Transportation Security Administration’s wide-reaching security efforts to show that the administration has demonstrated it can protect people’s personal and private information. “In the past 10 years, more people have moved through the systems of TSA than there are on the planet,” Lute said. “More than 7 billion people have moved through security systems of TSA, and we have not had one privacy incident. Not one. We can protect your information.” Cybersecurity is an area the administration spends a lot of time on, Lute said. Although governments don’t have the same latitude in cybersecurity they do in traditional security, Lute said, the U.S. government will continue to act to ensure the safety of its citizens. “Governments own security space. But that’s not necessarily true in cyber,” she said. “That has not been how the Internet has evolved, spontaneously and organically over the past couple of years. That assignment has not been given to government. But this government is not standing still. There are threats posed to this society in cyberspace, and we are taking action to play a role in ensuring that … we can build the nation’s finest cybereconomy and that we have cybersecurity for all. That’s what you're seeing play out in the executive order.” President Barack Obama signed an executive order on cybersecurity earlier this year (CD Feb 14 p1).