KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank Interviews Carolyn Gross, Award Winning International Speaker and Wellness Expert

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Brennan, Attorney and Nationally Recognized Speaker on Consumer Protection and Consumer Fraud Issues

Attorney Robert Brennan grew up steeped in the legal tradition: his uncle was former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (deceased), and his father, Frank Brennan, was chief in-house counsel for several major U.S. corporations during his long career.
Robert Brennan began his career in civil litigation in 1988, and opened his own general practice firm, The Law Offices of Robert F. Brennan in 1991 (www.brennanlaw.com). The firm specializes in litigating cases related to violations of consumer protection laws, including unfair and abusive debt collection, lemon law, automotive dealer fraud, wrongful credit damage, personal injury, and consumer protection class actions.
Robert is an experienced and aggressive trial lawyer with an excellent win record. His litigation experience includes medical malpractice, consumer fraud (including consumer warranty and "lemon law" issues), personal injury, and business litigation. He is also a nationally recognized speaker on consumer protection and consumer fraud issues, and has published numerous articles on those and other litigation issues. He is the co-author of a book I have in front of me called Debt Collection Answers: How To Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights.
For more information, please visit www.brennanlaw.com; www.socaldebtcollectionabuse.com; www.socalcreditdamage.com.

Mari Frank Interviews Aaron Kahn, Litigator Specializing in Constitutional Law, and Mike Almy, Discharged from the Air Force in 2006 Under

Aaron Kahn is a litigator specializing in commercial litigation, trust and probate litigation, and white-collar internal investigations and defense. He has represented clients in both state and federal court, as well as in multi-million dollar arbitrations in connection with disputes involving personal and business torts, contract law, commercial fraud, unfair competition/false advertising law, trust & probate law, and constitutional law. His clients have included individuals, small businesses, charitable institutions, and large international corporations in a variety of industries including sports & entertainment, technology, retail, health care, manufacturing, real estate development, engineered products and services, financial services, legal services, and banking.
Mr. Kahn's significant recent experience includes being a member of the trial team representing a major nonprofit organization, Log Cabin Republicans, in its high-profile lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the US military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. During the two-week federal court trial, which concluded in July 2010, White & Case presented extensive documentary evidence and testimony by experts and former servicemembers, all of which demonstrated that the policy does not further any of its asserted governmental purposes. As part of the trial, Mr. Kahn presented and examined several witnesses, including highly-decorated and accomplished Air Force servicemembers discharged under Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Mr. Kahn's recent experience also includes defending a major technology company in several high-stakes class arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association, conducting internal investigations for several large corporations concerning allegations of fraud and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, and representing charitable institutions in high-value trust and probate challenges.
Aaron Kahn serves on the Loyola Law School Alumni Association's Board of Governors and is active in the Loyola Law School community.
www.whitecase.com/aakahn/
Mike Almy joined the US Air Force in 1993 after graduating from Wright State University, where he earned his commission through Air Force ROTC, as a distinguished graduate. He served a total of thirteen years on active duty as a communications officer before he was discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in 2006. In his last position in the Air Force he led a team of nearly 200 men and women, responsible for operating and maintaining the command and control systems used to control the airspace over Iraq. His discharge process lasted sixteen months and started after the Air Force searched his private emails in Iraq.
During his career in the Air Force Mike has been stationed at Kelly AFB, Texas, Randolph AFB, Texas, Scott AFB, Illinois, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, Quantico MCB, Virginia, Ramstein AB, Germany and Spangdahlem AB, Germany. He deployed to the Middle East four times during his career, supporting Operation Desert Fox, Operation Southern Watch and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has a master's degree from Webster University, and is a graduate of Marine Corps University and Air University. His decorations include the Joint Commendation Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal and the Operation Iraqi Freedom Campaign Medal. He was named Officer of the Quarter, and Officer of the Year several times throughout his career. In 2005, he was named the top communications officer for the Air Force in Europe. In 2006 he was recommended for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, even as the Air Force was actively seeking to discharge him under DADT.
Since his discharge from the military Mike has worked as an IT consultant in the Washington, DC area, on projects for the Department of State and Department of Defense. His hometown is Dayton, Ohio. He has been an advocate for repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell by testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee and lobbying members of Congress. He spoke alongside Senators Lieberman and Levin when the bill to repeal DADT was introduced in the Senate. He has been interviewed on NPR, CNN, The Associated Press, The Rachel Maddow Show, Kathy Griffin's, My Life on the D List and the Advocate. He also escorted Lady Gaga to the MTV Video Music Awards and spoke at the repeal rally she held in Maine, before the vote in the Senate.

Mari Frank Interviews Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, plus a Discussion o...

Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, with a joint appointment in Political Science.
Previously, he taught at Duke Law School for four years, during which he won the Duke University Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award in 2006. Before that he taught for 21 years at the University of Southern California School of Law, and served for four years as director of the Center for Communications Law and Policy. Chemerinsky has also taught at UCLA School of Law and DePaul University College of Law.
His areas of expertise are constitutional law, federal practice, civil rights and civil liberties, and appellate litigation. He is the author of seven books, most recently, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution (October 2010, Simon & Schuster), and nearly 200 articles in top law reviews. He frequently argues cases before the nation's highest courts, and also serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media.
He is the author of seven books. His newest, The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, has been released just in time for the start of the U.S. Supreme Court's new term.
Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law. Prior to assuming this position in July 2008, was the Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University. Joined the Duke faculty in July 2004 after 21 years at the University of Southern California Law School, where he was the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science. Before that he was a professor at DePaul College of Law from 1980-83. Practiced law as a trial attorney, United States Department of Justice, and at Dobrovir, Oakes & Gebhardt in Washington, D.C. Received a B.S. from Northwestern University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
He has authored 7 books, and over 100 law review articles that have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review and Yale Law Journal. Writes a regular column on the Supreme Court for California Lawyer, Los Angeles Daily Journal, and Trial Magazine, and is a frequent contributor to newspapers and other magazines. Regularly serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media.
In April 2005, was named by Legal Affairs as one of the top 20 legal thinkers in America. Named by the Daily Journal in 2008 and 2009 (and many prior years) as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California. In 2006, received the Duke University Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. Has received many awards from educational, public interest, and civic organizations.
Frequently argues appellate cases, including in the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals. Testified many times before congressional and state legislative committees.
Elected by the voters in April 1997 to serve a two year term as a member of the Elected Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission. Served as Chair of the Commission which proposed a new Charter for the City which was adopted by the voters in June 1999. Also served as a member of the Governor's Task Force on Diversity in 1999-2000. In September 2000, released a report on the Los Angeles Police Department and the Rampart Scandal, which was prepared at the request of the Los Angeles Police Protective League. Served as Chair of the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Commission on City Contracting, which issued its report in February 2005.

Mari Frank Interviews Betsy Broder, a veteran FTC attorney

Mari Frank Interviews Joanne McNabb, Chief of the California Office of Privacy Protection

Mari Frank Interviews Liisa Thomas, an Attorney Who Provides Privacy Law Counseling

Mari Frank Interviews Five Teenagers About Privacy Issues with Electronic Devices and the Internet

Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown, licensed Clinical Psychologist

Mari Frank Interviews Attorney Ryan Calo who runs the Consumer Privacy Project at the Center for Internet & Society

Ryan Calo runs the Consumer Privacy Project at the Center for Internet & Society. Prior to joining the law school in 2008, Calo was an associate at Covington & Burling, LLP, where he advised companies on issues of data security, privacy, and telecommunications.
Calo received his JD cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a contributing editor to the Michigan Law Review and symposium editor of the Journal of Law Reform, and his BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth College. In 2005-2006, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable R. Guy Cole Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Prior to law school, Calo was an investigator of allegations of police misconduct in New York City.
Calo researches and presents on the intersection of law and technology. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal Blog, Smart Money, Digg, Slashdot, and other national and local media. Calo serves on several advisory and program committees, including Computers Freedom Privacy 2010, the Future of Privacy Forum, and National Robotics Week.
Publications
"Visceral Notice," Working Paper
"The Boundaries of Privacy Harm," 86 Indiana Law Journal __ (forthcoming 2011)
"Robots and Privacy," in Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics (Patrick Lin et al eds.), Cambridge: MIT Press (forthcoming 2011)
"People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension to Privacy and Technology Scholarship," 114 Penn State Law Review 809 (2010)
"Scylla or Charybdis: Navigating the Jurisprudence of Visual Clutter," 103 Michigan Law Review 1877 (2005)
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/profile/ryan-calo