November 12, 2010 10:08AM # Physician, Heal Thyself By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) --- SHARE The *Wall Street Journal* [reports](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703848204575608970171176014.html) that the Commerce Department will soon come forth with a “stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort.” Meanwhile, with nearly 22 months in office, President Obama has still [not named a single candidate](http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20004975-38.html) to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board that Congress established to review the government’s actions in response to terrorism. Had he appointed a board, it would have issued three public reports by now, and we would be awaiting a fourth. ##### Related Tags [Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).