KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank Interviews Rebecca Herold, The Privacy Professor

Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Deborah Peel, Medical Privacy Expert

Mari Frank Interviews Michael Turner, President and Founder of PERC

Dr. Turner currently serves as President and Senior Scholar of PERC, which he founded. He is a prominent expert on credit access, credit reporting and scoring, information policy, and economic development. He has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures, and presented studies to a host of government agencies including the FTC, the FCC, and the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Council of Economic Advisors, and the White House.
Dr. Turner was appointed to the first Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security by former Secretary Tom Ridge, and served on an Advisory Board at the Brookings Institution. He has advised senior government officials in more than 20 countries, and was a policy advisor to the Obama Campaign on urban policy.
The author or co-author of dozens of books, studies, or articles, Dr. Turner is widely cited in the mainstream and trade media. He is a highly sought after public speaker who has addressed audiences worldwide. Dr. Turner has served as expert witness for both plaintiff and defense in several federal cases (class action, anti-trust) involving information policy, consumer credit, credit reporting and financials services.
Dr. Turner served as Graduate Fellow at the Columbia Institute of Tele-Information at the Columbia Business School, Executive Director of the Information Services Executive Council, manger of government affairs for the North American Telecommunications Association, and staff assistant in the U.S. Senate.
Dr. Turner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in International Political Economy and his B.A. from Miami University in Economics. He was awarded a Yeck Fellowship from Harvard Business School, is an affiliate Scholar of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and was awarded the Ashoka Foundation Fellowship in 2009.

Mari Frank Interviews Jim Palmer, President of the Orange County Rescue Mission

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

Mari Frank Interviews Andrew Smith, Financial Privacy Expert

Mari Frank Interviews Anthony Oncidi, Labor and Employment Law Attorney

Mari Frank Interviews Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies for CATO

As director of information policy studies, Jim Harper focuses on the difficult problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. Harper is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. His work has been cited by USA Today, the Associated Press, and Reuters. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CBS, and MSNBC, and other media. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Administrative Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Recently, Harper wrote the book Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood. Harper is the editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think tank devoted exclusively to privacy, and he maintains online federal spending resource WashingtonWatch.com. He holds a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law.

Mari Frank Interviews Kirk Nahra, Healthcare Privacy Expert and Partner with Wiley Rein LLP

Mari Frank Interviews Jason Rich, Author and Journalist