becky richards is the national security agency's civil liberties privacy officer in this relatively new role. i think it's fair to say. she provides expert advise to the director of nsa on all issues pertaining to privacy and civil liberties protections. she conducted oversight of nsa's civil liberties and privacy activities. she developed america you are se security. she worked as the senior director for privacy compliance at the department of homeland security. >> thank you. thank you for hosting us. i am very honored to have been selected to be the first nsa civil liberty and privacy officer. this is an exciting member to be a member of the civil leb irties privacy community. o our community is growing and evolving. changes in the nature of the threat to our national security alongside rapid advances of technology as was discussed earlier make my job both interesting and challenging. technology provides is us with both opportunities and challenges but ultimately we must guide and shape its use to ensure the fundamental rights we hold deer ar as a nation are maintains. i would like to

so becky richards is the national security agency's civil liberties and privacy officer.in this relatively new role, i think it's fair to say, she provides expert advice to the director of nsa on all issues pertaining to privacy and civil liberties protections, and she conducts oversight of nsa's civil liberties and privacy-related activities. she also develops measures, which i hope she will talk about, to further strengthen nsa's privacy protections. prior to joining the national security agency, she worked as the senior director for privacy compliance at the department of homeland security. >> thank you, and thank you for hosting us. i am very honored to have been selected to be the first civil liberties and privacy officer. this is an exciting time to be a member of the civil liberties privacy community. our community is growing and evolving and will help inform the debate as the nation's reshapes its expectations for and limb taxes on the intelligence community activities. changes in the nature of the threat to our national security alongside rapid advances of techno