KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank Interviews Senator Joe Simitian, California 11th District

Mari Frank Interviews Jeff Chester, Executive Director for the Center for Digital Democracy

Mari Frank Interviews James Grimmelmann, Attorney and Technologist

James Grimmelmann is Associate Professor at New York Law School and a member of its Institute for Information Law and Policy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme and a member of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to law school, he received an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College and worked as a programmer for Microsoft. He has served as a Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale, as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
He studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects individual freedom and the distribution of wealth and power in society. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other. He writes about intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, online privacy, and other topics in computer and Internet law. Recent publications include The Ethical Visions of Copyright Law, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2005 (2009), How to Fix the Google Book Search Settlement, J. Internet L., Apr. 2009, at 1, and The Structure of Search Engine Law, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (2007).
He has been blogging since 2000 at the Laboratorium (http://laboratorium.net/). His home page is at http://james.grimmelmann.net/.

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Wood, Tax Attorney and Published Expert

Considered to be one of the leading tax lawyers in the United States, Robert W. Wood has a nationwide tax practice based in San Francisco. The founder of Wood & Porter, a tax specialty law firm, Mr. Wood handles tax controversies, tax planning, and tax advantaged business transactions. He is a frequent expert witness concerning tax matters in litigation.
Although his tax expertise is wide ranging, he is particularly well known for advising on the tax aspects of litigation recoveries and for handling independent contractor vs. employee controversies. A published authority and active speaker on many aspects of the federal income tax law, Wood has written more than thirty books and many hundreds of published articles. He contributes regular tax columns to Forbes and other publications.

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Ellis Smith, Journalist and Publisher of the Privacy Journal

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 (2004), 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 Privacy Laws, Celebrities and Privacy (2006), and War Stories, a collection of anecdotes on privacy invasions.
The New York Times said Smith "sounds the alarm about maintaining freedom and privacy in the computer age" and called him "a principled critic." Privacy Journal is "a privacy watchdog," according to Time magazine.
Smith has been asked to write the definitive statement on privacy in the last two editions of The World Book Encyclopedia. He has appeared on all three network morning news programs, as well as "Face the Nation," "Nightline," and "All Things Considered." He has been a regular commentator on "Marketplace" on American Public Radio. Smith writes a regular column on the popular Web site forbes.com.
From 1970 to 1973, Smith was the assistant director of the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Prior to that, he had nine years of experience as a news reporter and editor with the Detroit Free Press, Trenton Times, The Southern Courier, and Newsday.
He has taught at Harvard College, University of Maryland, Emerson College, and Brown University.
A 1962 graduate of Harvard College, Smith received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. He served as a member of the District of Columbia Human Rights Commission until 1986. In 1997, Vice President Gore named him to the Civil Liberties Panel of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. From 1996 to 2002, he served as vice chair of the Coastal Resources Management Council, which protects the 400 miles of Rhode Island coastline. In 2004 he was elected to the Town Council of Block Island, R.I.

Mari Frank Interviews Natalie Newman, Attorney and Technology Expert

Natalie Newman is an Associate in the Corporate Department and a member of the Intellectual Property and Privacy & Data Security Groups, resident in the New York office. Prior to joining Proskauer, she was an associate at Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner.

Mari Frank Interviews Helen Nissenbaum, Author and NYU Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University, where she is also Senior Faculty Fellow of the Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media. Nissenbaum?s research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited three books and a fourth, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, is due out in 2009, with Stanford University Press. The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have supported her work on privacy, trust online, and security, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design, including search engines, digital games, and facial recognition technology. Nissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Mari Frank Interviews Amy Alkon, Award-Winning Columnist

Amy Alkon writes the award-winning nationally syndicated advice column, The Advice Goddess, and has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, MTV, Politically Incorrect and Nightline. She blogs daily at advicegoddess.com, can be found on Twitter at amyalkon, and lives in Los Angeles.

Mari Frank Interviews Joseph Campana, Privacy and Identity Theft Expert

Joseph Campana, Ph.D. is a privacy and identity theft prevention expert. He has appeared on radio, TV and in various publications. He writes regularly about identity theft, privacy and information security topics of interest to small businesses as a featured columnist for Examiner.com.
Dr. Campana earned a business and government Certified Information Privacy Professional designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is a Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist and licensed special investigator.
Campana serves on several continuing professional education faculties including the Wisconsin Bar Association where he taught privacy and information security risk management and compliance.
Dr. Campana authored several white papers including Identity Theft: The Business Time Bomb, Data Breach Risk Factors: 2005-2008: A Resource Guide and he recently wrote a book, a small business guide to privacy compliance, Privacy MakeOver: The Essential Guide to Best Practices.
Campana's practice areas include privacy and information security compliance and employment background investigations. He also consults on identity theft and privacy-related investigations and litigation.
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Mari Frank Interviews David Johnson, Attorney Specializing in Digital Media Law

David D. Johnson is Of Counsel in JMBM's Litigation Group and specializes in digital media law and complex litigation. To read his views on current digital media issues, visit www.digitalmedialawyerblog.com. David's complex litigation practice includes state, federal and international commercial, officers and directors liability and mass tort litigation.