Kuci: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank Interviews 6 Privacy and security experts in a field interview at the exhibit hall at the California Data Protection Summit. Find out the newest tecnologies and the problems they solve.

Christopher Green practices credit litigation in Seattle Washington. He has represented consumers from all over Washington State including King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap, Whatcom, Thurston, Chelan and many other Washington Counties and has represented residents of Bellevue, Tacoma, Everett, Spokane, Kent, Auburn, Bremerton, Port Orchard, Oak Harbor etc. etc. He handles both individual and class actions. He does over 90% of his cases on a contingency fee basis and has represented hundreds of consumers against credit reporting agencies, banks, credit card companies and debt collectors regarding disputed credit errors. He is admitted to practice in Washington State and is also admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He graduated from Washington State University with honors and attended the University of Puget Sound. He is a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve

David Holtzman is a former security analyst and military code-breaker, a futurist, activist, technologist, technology executive, and writer. Throughout his career, he has led initiatives that have radically changed the way people interact with technology. Holtzman is an Internet pioneer who helped oversee the Internet's growth from its infancy in the mid-1990s through the dot-com boom. As Chief Technology Officer of Network Solutions and the manager of the Internet's master root server, he ran the most critical network in the world - the domain name system - and oversaw the growth of the commercial Internet from 500,000 to over 20 million domain names

Peter Kosmala assists with IAPP operations, strategy and marketing. He oversees membership services and is responsible for all of the association's privacy credentialing programs. In 2004, Mr. Kosmala helped develop and launch the first-ever, broad-based certification in information privacy, the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). He has since developed specialized credentialing programs in U.S. government privacy (CIPP/G) and Canadian privacy (CIPP/C). Today, he manages all three programs from course training and exam administration to continuing education. Prior to joining the IAPP, Mr. Kosmala worked successfully in a variety of consulting, entrepreneurial and corporate environments in business planning, strategic marketing and project management capacities. As Managing Director with strategic consulting firm Progress Partners, Mr. Kosmala advised corporate clients on Internet business strategy and marketing technology integration. As an Associate with online marketing consulting company U

Joe Simitian was elected to the California State Senate in November 2004 to represent the 11th State Senate District, which includes parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. His public service over the years includes stints as a State Assemblymember, member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Mayor of Palo Alto and President of the Palo Alto School Board. He has also served as an election observer/supervisor in El Salvador and Bosnia, and participated in refugee relief and resettlement efforts in Albania and Kosovo. In the Senate, Simitian chairs the Environmental Quality Committee and serves as a member of the following committees: Budget and Fiscal Review; Business, Professions and Economic Development; Education; Energy, Utilities and Communications; Environmental Quality; and Transportation and Housing. He is also one of two Democratic members on the Budget Subcommittee on Education. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford Universit

Jim Pyles has practiced health law for nearly 35 years, both with the federal government and in private practice. Mr. Pyles represents hospitals, physicians, psychotherapists, home health agencies, hospices, and companies providing durable medical equipment and infusion therapy in virtually every state and the District of Columbia. In representing these clients, Mr. Pyles has developed expertise in numerous health law subject areas, including the right to medical privacy and private communications as reflected in the U.S. and many state constitutions as well as federal and state law and traditional standards of medical ethics. As a registered lobbyist, Mr. Pyles has participated directly in issues relating to national health care reform with particular emphasis on medical privacy issues, medical ethics as well as payment and coverage reform.

Deborah is the Executive Director of PrivacyActivism. Her work focuses on consumer education campaigns, advocacy, and analysis of privacy issues, with particular emphasis on data flow, data matching, and privacy risks associated with data collection. In 2005, Deborah chaired the Association for Computing Machinery's Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference, bringing together attendees not only from government, business, education, and non-profits, but also from the community of computer professionals, hackers, crackers and engineers who work the code of cyberspace. Deborah is currently a member of the University of Washington's Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology Advisory Committee. She was a committee member of the Washington State Bar Association's Access to Justice, a committee formed to develop more detailed guidelines addressing the issue of the technological impact on privacy within the justice system. In her previous role as a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Tom is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates and Chairman of the 2007 Data Protection Summit. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical and corporate executive. For several years he has been collaborating with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego on the sanitization of disk drive data. In addition to regular technical and market consulting projects he is the publisher of several reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems including storage components, capital spending, storage technology trends, a series on storage and digital entertainment and a series on system storage. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference (which celebrated its sixth year in 2007). Tom is a senior member and officer of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE, as well as a member of AP

Emily Andrew was named Acting Chief Privacy Officer for the Postal Service in August 2006. In this role, she is responsible for reinforcing and increasing the value that privacy brings to the U.S. Postal Service's brand. Emily reports to the Consumer Advocate and Vice President, Consumer Affairs and is responsible for advising the Office of the Postmaster General and senior management on a wide variety of privacy-related issues and initiatives. She manages the development and implementation of privacy policies and processes including the organization's compliance with the Privacy Act and regulations, research of global privacy trends in government and industry; and the integration of privacy features into all Postal Service products, programs and services. She also chairs the USPS Privacy Board made up of key Postal Service executives. Emily Andrew has led the privacy program's team since 2003 and has a strong professional background in operations, consumer affairs, and marketing. Other responsibilities inc

James M. Jordan is the former Chief Privacy Leader and Senior Counsel for E-Commerce & Information Technology of General Electric Company, where he led GE's pioneering initiative to implement Binding Corporate Rules for the transfer of personal data from Europe. His law firm, Jordan Legal Counsel, P.C., serves as co-counsel to Crowell & Moring's Privacy and Data Protection Group, focusing on privacy and personal data protection issues. He teams with lawyers from the firm's European offices to assist clients in complying with the European Union Data Protection Directive, ePrivacy Directive and eCommerce Directive, implementation of global privacy programs, and cross-border transfers of personal data pertaining to employees, customers and suppliers. He also advises clients on compliance with U.S. laws pertaining to privacy, electronic marketing and e-commerce, including the FTC Act, CANSPAM Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (CO

David M. Smith a former Naval Officer and current high level employee of Delta Airlines found out in 1998 that he was a victim of criminal ID theft when a felon with many outstanding warrants used David's good name to commit crimes. David was arrested and treated like a criminal and spent hundreds of hours trying to clear his name. He thought all was finally over untuil December 2006 when he was again arrested for crimes his impostor committed. Listen to this outrageous story of this hero who refuses to be defteated.

Professor Gene Tsudik is the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the University of California , Irvine in the Department of Computer Science. He was chosen as a Fullbright Scholar to teach and do research in Rome in the Spring of 2007 concerning computer privacy issues.

Marc-Aurele Racicot is a member of the Quebec Bar and is presently a staff lawyer with the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators (CAPAPA) and of the Association sur l'acces a l'information et la protection de l'information (AAPI). He is currently a graduate student in the LLM Program at the Law Faculty, University of Alberta. His research centres on the open courts principle and access to information and protection of privacy. Mr. Racicot is co-author of the works Federal Access to Information and Privacy Legislation Annotated and Protection of Privacy in the Canadian Private Sector published by Thomson-Carswell. In 2003, Mr. Racicot began his work with the Faculty of Extension - University of Alberta Information Access and Protection of Privacy (IAPP) Certificate Program when he wrote two modules for the course Access in a Liberal Democracy. As part of a secondment, Mr. Racicot is entering his third year

Alisa McDermott is a Colorado resident, Insurance Broker, and mother of 4 children, with 2 living still at home. She is President of the local Business Association, and a member of many local clubs and organizations. She has been a positive contributing member of her community. In the year 2000 she found out she was the victim of identity theft and what this would mean for her and her family. Her nightmare has lasted for six years - she is still trying to clear her name and credit from the horrible scene of Identity Theft.

Robert Dougls is CEO of Privacy Today. He consults on issues involving information security for private industry, law enforcement and governmetnal agencies. He served as an expert for the Federal Trade Commiission's design and execution of Operation Detect Pretext, a sting operation to catch and prosecute offenders participating in the illegal information broker industry. He has testified many times in Congress and has investigatted and helped with the HP pretexting scandal as well as high profile pretext cases involving murder. Visit www.privacytoday.com

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Chicago suburban residents at the famous "Russell's" restaurant. You'll hear the mid-west perspective on privacy issues from business persons, senior citizens, and even an eight year old!! What does the "person on the street" think about the privacy issues? Listen to how these interviewees deal with privacy challenges that we all face?

Dr. Lawrence A. Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research think tank dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy risk management and the development of the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for information ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute and is faculty of CyLab. He serves on the Unisys Corporation?s Security Leadership Institute Board and the IBM Privacy Management Council. Dr. Ponemon is a member of the National Board of Advisors of the Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona. He serves on the Government Policy Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the Internet T

Dave is the past president of the Southern California Tourism Safety & Security Association, a non-profit collaboration of law enforcement, security professionals, attraction operators, travel professionals, tourism industry representatives and others dedicated to the exchange of tourist crime and safety information, education, and professional networking. Dave is an 18-year veteran of Southern California law enforcement, and currently works on community and tourist oriented policing projects. He has authored articles, and been interviewed for a variety of magazines and newspapers, regarding tourism security trends. Dave was honored by the Orange County Tourism Council with their Chairman's Award, the first time the Council has recognized a member of law enforcement. Dave received the 2005 Special Recognition Award from his agency, as well as a U.S. Congressional certificate of commendation for his initiatives in promoting improved visitor security.

Tammie Carroll, a Colorado resident, is a recovering drug addict and the mother of 4 children. Three of the children are living with her and the fourth was adopted out due to her drug addiction and the crimes she committed. She has been clean from drugs and crime since Jan 8, 2003. She became addicted to methamphetamine after an abusive relationship. The drug addictions led her to places and do things that she never thought she would go or do. She started stealing from others to provide for her children and to support her drug habit. She became involved with cashing counterfeit checks and stealing mail. She would create new check using the routing number and account number of checks she had stole in the mail. After she figured out just how easy it was that was to steal identities and money the identity theft became an addiction all in itself. Tammie was indicted by a grand jury with a group of people on many different charges and sentenced to Peer 1 where her life was saved. Tammie is currently still serving

Christine Varney rejoined Hogan & Hartson in 1997, after five years in government service, to head the firm's Internet practice group. This practice provides full service assistance to companies doing business globally, including providing advice on antitrust, privacy, business planning and corporate governance, intellectual property, and general liability issues. Christine also provides antitrust, competition policy, and regulatory advice to a variety of companies. Her clients have included such companies as eBay, DoubleClick, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Dow Jones & Company, AOL, Synopsys, Compaq Computer, Gateway, Netscape, The Liberty Alliance, and Real Networks. Prior to becoming a federal trade commissioner, Christine was an assistant to the president and secretary to the Cabinet. She was the primary point of contact for the 20-member Cabinet. She was responsible for the overall coordination of several major issues and initiatives between the White House and various agencies. Before