{"id":104439,"date":"2024-06-24T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/?post_type=insight&#038;p=104439"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:02:27","slug":"cdt-others-urge-president-biden-to-renominate-sharon-bradford-franklin-to-chair-of-privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board-pclob","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/insights\/cdt-others-urge-president-biden-to-renominate-sharon-bradford-franklin-to-chair-of-privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board-pclob\/","title":{"rendered":"CDT, Others Urge President Biden to Renominate Sharon Bradford Franklin to Chair of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, the Center for Democracy &amp; Technology (CDT) was joined by 15 other organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PCLOB-Nomination-Coalition-Letter-Final-6-21-24.pdf\">in urging President Biden to renominate Sharon Bradford Franklin<\/a> to Chair of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). Ms. Bradford Franklin\u2019s terms as PCLOB Chair has expired and the period during which she can serve in a holdover capacity expires in January. In the past, vacancies in PCLOB membership have rendered it less effective \u2014 and even dormant \u2014 for lengthy periods of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter points out that Ms. Bradford Franklin has proven herself a &#8220;vigorous and pragmatic champion of protecting privacy and civil liberties in the fight against terrorism\u201d and in promoting transparency in the Intelligence Community that PCLOB oversees. It indicates that the PCLOB&#8217;s reports on extraordinary surveillance powers \u2014 including reports issued under Ms. Bradford Franklin\u2019s leadership \u2014 have driven the public debate about whether those powers should be renewed and the guardrails that should be included when they are renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stable leadership at PCLOB is especially important now because of its role in reviewing the privacy and civil liberties safeguards in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The European Commission is in the midst of a searching examination of the workings of the DPF in the U.S., and the proper functioning of PCLOB will be at issue during that examination. The DPF enables the flow of data between the U.S. and EU Member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/PCLOB-Nomination-Coalition-Letter-Final-6-21-24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full letter + list of signatories.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":104441,"template":"","content_type":[793],"area-of-focus":[7257,806,799],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/104439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/insight"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/104439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104443,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/insight\/104439\/revisions\/104443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_type?post=104439"},{"taxonomy":"area-of-focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area-of-focus?post=104439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}