Privacy: How much regulation is too much?

By Shawna McAlearney, News Editor 28 Apr 2005 | SearchSecurity.com

We had a chance to self-regulate, but now it's the government's turn, Marcus Ranum told a panel of security and privacy experts yesterday at the Security & Technology Online (SATO) e-conference. The group discussed the future of security and privacy regulations and the possibility of further government intervention in industry practices. But it offered no solutions.

"We're in a really difficult spot," said Ranum, CSO of Columbia-Md.-based Tenable Security. "Industry should have been doing more all along, but because it didn't the government is going to have to step in."

Panelists also included Barbara Lawler, chief privacy officer for Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif.; Dan Burton, vice president of government relations at Entrust Inc. in Addison, Texas; Ken Williams, vice president of IT governance at Computer Associates Inc. in Islandia, N.Y.; and Mary Ann Davidson, CSO for Oracle Corp. in Redwood Shores, Calif.

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