“The ongoing Snowden revelations about the NSA’s indiscriminate spying on private communications over the internet make the role particularly challenging. Anyone applying for the role would do well to familiarise themselves with the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s handy guide to decoding NSA doublespeak. When senior NSA officials maintain that keeping track of phone conversations, for example, doesn’t count as surveillance, then any privacy officer is going to have a difficult job. In fact, we can think of few more difficult jobs since the post of Staff Rabbi to the Spanish Inquisition.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/24/nsa_privacy_officer/
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