If you start at zero, 50 percent is only 50 cents,

[Kelly's departure comes at a critical time for the DHS, which is trying to build momentum for the TSA's Secure Flight program, an airline passenger-screening program that's been stalled in part by significant concerns about its ability to protect consumer privacy.] It's terrible news for the DHS, ... but it's great news for GE.

[Kelly's departure comes at a critical time for the DHS, which is trying to build momentum for the TSA 's Secure Flight program, an airline passenger-screening program that's been stalled in part by significant concerns about its ability to protect consumer privacy.] It's terrible news for the DHS, ... but it's great news for GE.

[But despite its strength, GE has tended to be quiet about its privacy efforts, treating it more like compliance. For that reason, the hiring of Kelly may be an indication that GE wants to turn its stellar privacy record into more of a competitive differentiator.] Maybe GE has reached a realization that they could be more externally focused, ... Nuala has done a really good job of fighting lots of fires and tackling lots of issues. She's been very transparent.

We know a lot of organizations have posted privacy policies that they don't live by, ... We have to make it costly not to walk the walk. If you don't have an enforcement arm, you won't change bad players.

Microsoft's P3P is not the full-blown P3P, ... Most of us thought that P3P would die. The fact that it is here and it is baked into the IE 6 browser -- I think that Microsoft should be applauded for being bold.