National Security Trumps Personal Privacy, Government IT Pros Say

[OhioChick]

A public opinion research poll also found 69% of those surveyed believe identity management is very important to their organizations and agencies.

By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
March 3, 2008 12:24 PM

Government IT professionals believe that national security is more important than personal privacy, according to a survey released Monday

Quest Software's Identity Management Government Survey of 474 IT professionals in federal, state, and local government found that 53% believe that national security should take priority over American's personal privacy.

The survey, conducted by the public opinion research company Pursuant in January, also showed that 69% of IT professionals in federal, state, and local government believe identity management is very important to their organizations and agencies. Seventy-two percent believe that it will increase in importance over the next five years, the survey revealed.

Fifty-nine percent of local and county government IT professionals are very concerned about compromised critical public infrastructure, while 45% of federal and 38% of state government IT professionals are very concerned.

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[Demeter]

1. How Else Could They Justify Their Employment?

Ask a lawyer if you want legal advice, not a political hack.

[leftofcool]

2. I would like to see

exactly how the questions were phrased on this.

Left of Cool

[catnhatnh]

3. I just polled the U.S. Constitution....

...They're wrong.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I find that disgusting. How can the USA, as a country, be so insecure with the hundreds of billions

of dollars spent on the 'military' each year?

[DCKit]

5. How is any citizen's personal information vital, in any way, to corporate...

or national security? Definitely want to see the questions and how they were phrased to generate such a ridiculous result.

Corporate/Government security is mutually exclusive of personal privacy. The Constitution may be an antique, but they're going to have to come up with a better excuse than a rigged poll of computer geeks before amending the basic tenets of one of the most intelligently written documents of all time.

On Edit, never mind. All questions answered:

"Thirty-one percent of respondents said that funding is the primary impediment to attaining identity management goals, but only 5% believe funding for identity management products and services will decrease over the next five years. Forty-five percent predicted increased funds.

Half of the respondents said Congress should give agencies more money to develop and deploy identity management systems, while 49% stressed the need for more collaboration among federal, state, and local government agencies and organizations."

[MasonJar]

6. No it does not. There is not much threat anyway. Not enough to give up our rights.

[unkachuck]

7. all I can say is...

....Sieg Heil!