On 1/9, J. Nicholas Hoover reported for InformationWeekGovernment on Perfect Citizen, the NSA run program aimed at improving the cybersecurity of US critical infrastructure. Hoover writes that Perfect Citizen “derives from the fact that ‘the prevention of a loss due to a cyber or physical attack is crucial to the continuity of the [Department of Defense], the [Intelligence Community], and the operation of [signals intelligence] systems.'” The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) submitted a FOIA request for documents pertaining to Perfect Citizen. Predictably, most of the documents were heavily redacted, but EPIC discovered that the “NSA contracted with Raytheon in a deal capped at $91 million to help run Perfect Citizen, which is in the fourth year of a five-year contract period.”
To me, Perfect Citizen makes a whole lot of sense, even in light of possible privacy issues.
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