Privacy expert calls for action on Specter-Leahy bill  Beth
Pariseau, News Writer As reported previously by, a Senate panel
approved a bill last week, known as The Personal Data Privacy
and Security Act, or the Specter-Leahy Act, concerning data-
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the bill becomes law, it would require any company holding
personal data on more than 10,000 Americans to implement privacy
and security policies. brought questions about this new frontier
in government regulation and data security to University of
California, San Diego (UCSD) professor Dr. Roger Bohn. Professor
Bohn is a specialist in technology and operations management
whose primary research is on the management of engineering
activities in technology-driven companies. Bohn recently became
director of a new center to study the information storage
industry at UCSD.  Bohn's answers to the questions raised by the
new bill were surprising and candid -- and brought new emphasis
to the idea that compliance is