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Privacy in the hands of government : the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board and the privacy officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security : hearing before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, July 24, 2007.