Kuci: Privacy Piracy

Mr. Joel S. Lisker was most recently the Senior Vice-President for Security and Risk Management for MasterCard International. In this capacity he served as the company's world-wide senior security representative for all matters relating to the fraudulent use of its numerous card products. He was instrumental in developing technical solutions and strategies to thwart the efforts of organized crime, and as head of Corporate Security with responsibility for safeguarding MasterCard employees, premises, and property throughout the world, he ensured the safety and security of its' human and physical assets, without incident. At MasterCard, he led the development of chip-based biometrics solutions for data security, perimeter security, visitor screening and employee authentication. After completion of his formal education at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S.) and the Temple University School of Law (J.D.), he joined the FBI as a Special Agent where he worked against domestic terrorist groups. Thereafter, as a S

Mr. Davis, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, is a member of the Litigation Group of the Orrick law firm. Mr. Davis advises clients on a wide range of legal and governmental issues. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation, with particular focus on securities fraud and accounting irregularities cases, antitrust, government contracts and commercial litigation, and legal crisis management and strategic communications. In June 2005, President Bush appointed Mr. Davis to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Davis served as Special Counsel to the President in the White House and was spokesperson for the President on matters concerning the campaign finance investigations and other legal issues. Drawing upon this experience, since his return to private practice, Mr. Davis provides counseling to corporations and government contractors on crisis management issues by developi

Randy V. Sabett, CISSP, is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he is a member of the Information Security & Internet Enforcement and Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Groups. He counsels clients on information security, privacy, IT licensing, and patents, dealing with such issues as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital and electronic signatures, federated identity, HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Sarbanes- Oxley, state and federal information security laws, identity theft, and security breaches. Mr. Sabett has helped companies develop strategies to protect their intellectual property, including preparing and prosecuting patents related to cryptography, authentication, security, certification and accreditation, and related areas of technology. He has also drafted and negotiated a wide variety of technology transaction agreements, including software licenses, OEM agreements, ASP agreements, technology development and licensing agreements, te

In the information age where sensitive customer data is being stolen and privacy intrusions are vast, new technologies have arisen to protect companies, their employees and customers. Join Host Mari Frank, Esq. as she interviews the data protection experts and their new technologies to protect you and your private information at the Data Protection Conference that was held recently in Orange County California.

Shirin Sinnar is a staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, where she works on racial and ethnic profiling, employment discrimination, and other civil rights and workers' rights issues with a particular focus on the South Asian community. Prior to joining the Caucus, she served as an Equal Justice Works fellow with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area on post-9/11 discrimination by employers, financial institutions, landlords, and other private businesses. She is the author of the 2007 Lawyers' Committee report entitled "The OFAC List: How a Treasury Department Terrorist Watchlist Ensnares Everyday Consumers." She served as a law clerk to Judge Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Santa Ana, California from 2003 to 2004. Sinnar is a co-founder and board member of the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers, which received the State Bar President's Pro Bono Service Award for Distinguished Service in 2006. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School, Ca

Mike German is a Policy Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office. In this capacity German develops policy positions and pro-active strategies on pending legislation and executive branch actions concerning domestic surveillance, data mining, freedom to travel, medical and financial privacy, ID cards, immigration policy, whistleblower protection, military commissions, and law enforcement conduct. A sixteen-year veteran of federal law enforcement, German served as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he specialized in domestic terrorism and covert operations. As an undercover agent, German twice infiltrated violent neo-Nazi groups using constitutionally sound law enforcement techniques. These operations successfully prevented terrorist attacks by winning criminal convictions against terrorists. German's final assignment with the FBI was as a counter-terrorism instructor at the FBI National Academy. There, he taught courses on extremism in democra

Robert J. Rebhan is a nationally renowned expert and speaker on identity theft and financial crimes, and a former Detective Sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department. During his exciting career with the LAPD, he served in many high profile assignments including the SWAT Team, Hollywood's Narcotics, Robbery, Homicide, and Vice Squads. As a detective, he was a master of disguise and during his 22 years of service he was personally involved in the arrest of thousands of criminals. Before leaving the department, Mr. Rebhan was selected by the Credit Card Industry to help develop and direct a fraud prevention program. He has traveled to Europe and Latin America on behalf of the industry, and for the last 18 years has personally done over 1000 presentations on the subject of financial crimes. As the Director of The American Express Company's Fraud Prevention Program, Western Region, he managed a team of twelve consultants, personally orchestrating over 150,000 business and consumer presentations. He brings

n February 2007, Shirley Durham was named Director of Programs and Special Projects for Ponemon Institute, LLC, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices, which is located in Traverse City, Michigan. Ms. Durham joined Ponemon Institute after retiring from Ford Motor Company (Ford) with more than 30 years of service, during which she held a variety of management positions, including Director of Ford's Corporate Privacy Office. As Director of Ford's Corporate Privacy Office, she was responsible for providing strategic direction globally for Ford and its family of brands, products and services on privacy initiatives and for overseeing the development of corporate privacy policy related to personal information. In this capacity, she provided assistance to operations to meet legal and corporate compliance requirements and deliver optimal business solutions. Ms. Durham coordinated the Corporate Privacy Steering Committee, which provided executive oversight on privacy matt

Investigator Gene Inouye is currently assigned to the Orange County Sheriff's Department's Economic Crimes Unit and is responsible for investigating various financial crimes including: identity theft, financial elder abuse, real estate fraud, credit/check fraud, and securities fraud. Over Investigator Inouye's 16 year law enforcement career, he has worked a variety of assignments including: court operations, jail operations, patrol, field training officer, narcotics/gangs/vice investigator, and drug education. He has many years of experience instructing students, educators, parents, business leaders, and communities on a variety of topics including: crime trends, crime prevention, drug education and financial crimes prevention. Investigator Inouye is currently a member of the Orange County Financial Crimes Investigators Association. http://www.ocsd.org Leslie Howard Leslie Howard graduated from University of Washington with a degree in Business Administration, with a focus on Finance /Marketing. She stud

Beth Givens is founder and director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), a nonprofit advocacy, research, and consumer education program located in San Diego, California. The PRC was established in 1992 with funding from the California Public Utilities Commission's Telecommunications Education Trust. It is an independent program of the Utility Consumers' Action Network, a nonprofit organization that advocates for consumers' interests regarding telecommunications, energy and the Internet. The PRC maintains a complaint/information hotline on informational privacy issues, the only one of its kind in the country. It publishes a series of guides on informational privacy issues. Topics include Internet privacy, wireless communications, credit reporting, identity theft, telemarketing, medical records, workplace privacy, employment screening, unsolicited mail, government records, children's online privacy, among others. These are available at the PRC's web site, www.privacyrights.org. Givens frequently speaks

Robert D. Brownstone is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LL, a 250-attorney Silicon-Valley based law firm, specializing in providing comprehensive services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. Robert advises clients on electronic discovery, electronic information management, compliance and retention/destruction policies and protocols. He also regularly collaborates with clients and colleagues to assess and implement computer support solutions for litigations and transactions. A nationwide speaker and writer on many law and technology issues (including privacy law), Robert is frequently quoted in the press as an expert on electronic information. Last year he was named by Law & Politics magazine as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" and was featured in the cover story of the August issue of ABA Law Practice magazine. Mr. Brownstone is a member of four state bars (including California and New York), of the Information Systems Auditin

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is senior staff attorney to the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and senior fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. His focus is consumer privacy law. He is admitted to practice law in California and the District of Columbia. Mr. Hoofnagle was the former director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's West Coast Office in San Francisco, California. He has testified before Congress on privacy and Social Security Numbers, identity theft, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Security Breaches and before the Judicial Conference of the U.S. on public records and privacy. Chris' past work has focused on financial services privacy, gender and privacy, commercial profiling and telemarketing, commercial data brokers, and the privacy implications of emerging technologies including invasive advertising and Digital Rights Management. He participated in the Amy Boyer case, where the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that information brokers and private inve

During Ken's three decades of entrepreneurship, he has created a series of successful technology companies, including the Video Graphics Corporation, Spectrum Electronics, AEA, and MeetChina.com. In 1995, Ken launched TABNet, a web hosting pioneer that grew to more than 150 employees and 100,000 customers before NTT/Verio acquired it in 1998. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Meet World Trade, GameWorld Technologies, D-achieve, PeerPC and OnMap. He also serves on the advisory board of Global Internet Ventures, an international venture capital investment fund, and is a member of the Information Systems Security Association. Ken studied medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria, and radio astronomy at the University of Florida. www.scanalert.com

PHILIP L. GORDON is a shareholder in the Denver office of Littler Mendelson, P.C., the largest law firm practicing exclusively labor and employment law. Mr. Gordon chairs the Firm's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group. He regularly counsels Fortune 500 companies, as well as medium-sized and small businesses, concerning compliance with recently enacted state data protection laws, the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and the European data protection laws; security incident response, background checks, workplace monitoring of employee communications, and other privacy and information security issues. In addition, he has substantial experience representing employers in trade secret, wrongful termination, and privacy-related litigation. Mr. Gordon has taught privacy and data security law as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Privacy Officers Advisor, the monthly publication of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

oanne McNabb is Chief of the California Office of Privacy Protection. Created by legislation in 2001, the first-in-the-nation Office is a resource and advocate on identity theft and other privacy issues. In addition to providing information and education for consumers, the Office also publishes privacy practice recommendations for business and other organizations. McNabb is co-chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals' Government Working Group and a member of the Privacy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Before starting up the Office of Privacy Protection, McNabb had over 20 years experience in public affairs and marketing, in both the public and private sectors, including five years with an international marketing company in France. Her marketing background gives her an understanding of the commercial uses of personal information that have become a significant privacy concern.

Matt Isaacson is Director of Product Marketing with CPP North America, LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of CPP Group, an international provider of life assistance products and services. Its international headquarters is in York, England, but CPP has offices throughout the United Kingdom as well as in the United States, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore and maintains a worldwide base of over 10 million customers. CPP North American headquarters are located in Minneapolis, MN. In his role as Director of Product Marketing, Mr. Isaacson helps drive new opportunities for CPP's partnering with companies to help consumers meet their needs with a variety of products including privacy and identity theft.

Neal O'Farrell is one of the top 20 security experts in the world.

Robert Ellis Smith is a journalist who uses his training as an attorney to report on the individual's right to privacy. Since 1974, he has published Privacy Journal, a monthly newsletter on privacy in a computer age based in Providence, R.I. Smith is a frequent speaker, writer, and Congressional witness on privacy issues and has compiled a clearinghouse of information on the subject: computer data banks, credit and medical records, the Internet, electronic surveillance, the law of privacy, and physical and psychological privacy. Smith is the author of Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet (Spring 2000), the first and only published history of privacy in the U.S. He is also the author of Our Vanishing Privacy (1993), The Law of Privacy Explained (1993), Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It; Workrights, a book describing individual rights in the work place; and The Big Brother Book of Lists. Privacy Journal also publishes Compilation of State and Federal Privac

Chris Davison is the Technology Manager for the two National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research projects known as Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events (Rescue - www-itr-rescue.org) and Responsphere (www.responsphere.org). The research projects are housed at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He has over 20 years of Information Technology (IT) experience and has been working and sometimes lecturing at UCI since 1996. Chris holds an A.S. in Computer Science, a B.S. in Information Systems, an MBA in Technology Management, and is currently a PhD student in Organization and Management (IT Management). His research interests are in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR), ethics, and privacy. He has presented and published extensively in those areas. As the Technology Manager for Rescue and Responsphere, Chris is involved with creating smart buildings and IT pervasive spaces. These technologies ai

Dr. Michael Willett received his BS degree from the US Air Force Academy and his Masters and PhD in mathematics from NC State University. After a career as a university professor of mathematics and computer science, Michael joined IBM as a design architect, moving into IBM's Cryptography Competency Center. Later, Dr Willett joined Fiderus, a security and privacy consulting practice; subsequently, accepting a position with Wave Systems, working on programmable cryptographic chips used in the deployment of smart card technologies. Currently, Michael is a Senior Director in Seagate Research, focusing on security functionality on hard drives. Dr Willett represents Seagate on the Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors, Technical Committee, and the Trusted Storage Work Group. Michael also chairs the Privacy Framework Project of the ISTPA, developing an operational framework for implementing fair information privacy practices. www.seagate.com