PRIVACY & SECURITY IN HOMELAND SECURITY:  ARE WE READY FOR THE DAY BEFORE TOMORROW?

WASHINGTON, DC July 11, 2011 - The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council today released its 11th monograph as part of its “9/10/11 Project,” focusing on the complicated relationship between privacy and security in the homeland security post-9/11 environment. Once upon a time, people’s privacy was pretty much taken care of by curtains and shades.  Their security, in terms of their physical safety and possessions, was achieved—or attempted to be achieved—with moats, walls, rivers and oceans.  But that was then.  Over the course of the 20th century, culminating in the attacks of