Franklin heads to privacy, civil liberties board

Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior policy counsel at The Constitution Project, is leaving the civil liberties watchdog group to serve as the executive director of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

Franklin will join the newly formed board as it reviews the government's use of surveillance law in the wake of the revelations about a pair of National Security surveillance programs that are used to collect Americans' phone records and monitor the Internet traffic of foreign targets. Franklin is expected to join the board in late August or early September. She has been with The Constitution Project since 2005 and has worked on issues dealing with cybersecurity, government transparency and surveillance policies.