KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank Interviews Larry Ponemon, Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute

Dr. Larry 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 auditing and 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 ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University?s CIO Institute. He is a founding board member of the Unisys Corporation?s Security Leadership Institute.
Dr. Ponemon consults with leading multinational organizations on global privacy management programs. He has extensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks for managing privacy and data security including financial services, health care, pharmaceutical, telecom and Internet. Dr. Ponemon was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Online Access & Security for the United States Federal Trade Commission. He was recently appointed by the White House to the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee for the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Ponemon was also an appointed to two California State task forces on privacy and data security laws.
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 as Chairman of the Government Policy Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the Internet Task Force for the Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO).
Dr. Ponemon was a senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he founded the firm?s global compliance risk management group. Prior to joining Price Waterhouse as a partner, Dr. Ponemon served as the National Director of Business Ethics Services for KPMG Peat Marwick, and was appointed Executive Director of the KPMG Business Ethics Institute. Dr. Ponemon has held chaired (tenured) faculty positions and published numerous articles and learned books. He has presented more than 500 keynote speeches or learned presentations at national or international conferences on privacy, data protection, information security, corporate governance, and responsible information management.
Dr. Ponemon is an active member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, serving as founding member of the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) Advisory Board. Dr. Ponemon is column editor for Computerworld, CSO Magazine, BNA, Dark Reading and other leading publications. He is a frequent commentator on privacy and business ethics for CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times, Business 2.0, Newsweek, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, CIO Magazine, Industry Standard, Boston Globe, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Forbes, Fortune, CFO Magazine, Red Herring, Dow Jones News and others.
Dr. Ponemon earned his Ph.D. at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He has a Master?s degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended the doctoral program in system sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ponemon earned his Bachelors with Highest Distinction from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He is a Certified Public Accountant (active license in Texas).
Dr. Ponemon is a veteran (Vietnam War era) of the United States Navy. He is married and has two sons.

Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Marcel Just, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging

Marcel Adam Just, the D.O. Hebb Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon and Director of its Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, is a researcher and scientific contributor in a broad set of areas of neuroscience, with major funding for over three decades from NIH (including a Senior Scientist Award) and ONR (Office of Naval Research). He has made pioneering brain imaging contributions in language processing, multitasking, and thought identification (from brain images) that have been published in leading journals. He is the author of one of the leading theories of autism, has recently helped develop the first successful attempt to decode a simple thought from a person's brain activity (published in Science), has demonstrated the brain consequences of cell phone use during driving, and has demonstrated for the first time that the brains of children who are poor readers can be changed, not just in how they activate, but also in their very anatomy. In addition to the scientific research, he has also been involved in relating neuroscience findings to public policy, including providing testimony on the biological basis of autism to the U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Subcommittee on Human Rights & Wellness, and testimony on cell phone use during driving to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Transportation Committee Hearing.
His research uses brain imaging (fMRI) in high-level cognitive tasks to study the neural basis of the architecture of human thought. The fMRI studies attempt to determine the underlying cortical components of the cognitive system and the nature of the collaboration among them in many different types of tasks. The individual projects investigate high level thinking in tasks like sentence comprehension, mental rotation, imagery, object recognition, problem-solving, and decision-making. The projects examine normal cognitive functioning in college students and in adolescents, as well as in special populations, such as patients with autism and children with dyslexia.
The fMRI results are being used in the development of a computational theory of cognition called 4CAPS, which models the dynamic, collaborative activity of the brain's large-scale network of computational centers, each drawing on its own set of relative specializations. This approach provides an account of the relation between thought processes and brain activity.
For bio and publications information visit: www.ccbi.cmu.edu/people_faculty_content.htm
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Mari Frank Interviews Peter Cullen, Chief Privacy Strategist, Microsoft Corp.

Mari Frank Interviews Dan Solove, Law Professor and Author

Daniel J. Solove is a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.
He received his A.B. in English Literature from Washington University, where he was an early selection for Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, Professor Solove won the university-wide scholarly writing Field Prize and served as symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Following law school, Professor Solove clerked for The Honorable Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. After practicing law as an associate at the firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., Professor Solove began a second clerkship with The Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
He began his law teaching career at Seton Hall Law School in 2000. He joined the George Washington University Law School faculty in 2004.
Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature.
An internationally known expert in privacy law, Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in several hundred articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, the Associated Press, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and NPR.
Professor Solove is the author of Understanding Privacy (Harvard University Press 2008), The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale University Press 2007), The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press 2004) and Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing, 3rd ed. 2009), among other titles. His book, The Future of Reputation, won the 2007 McGannon Award.
He has written more than 25 articles, which have appeared in many of the leading law reviews, including the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, U. Pennsylvania Law Review, NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and U. Chicago Law Review, among others.
He has consulted in high-profile privacy law cases, contributed to amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, and testified before Congress. He serves on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is on the board of the Law and Humanities Institute.
Professor Solove blogs at Concurring Opinions, a blog covering issues of law, culture, and current events. It was selected by the ABA Journal as among the 100 best law blogs.

Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Bryan McDonald, Assistant Director for the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs

Bryan McDonald is the Assistant Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. He received a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine, a Master's Degree in Political Science from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor's Degree (in Honors, Summa Cum Laude) in English from Virginia Tech. His research explores the impacts of processes of global change on politics and security with a focus on human, environmental, and international security. Current research projects include: threats and vulnerabilities of the emerging network of global food systems; the environmental dimensions of peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction, and social and political impacts of the changing global security landscape.
He is co-editor of Global Environmental Change and Human Security (MIT Press, forthcoming 2009) and Landmines and Human Security: International Politics and War's Hidden Legacy (SUNY Press, 2004, paperback 2006). His work has been published in Democracy & Society, The Journal of the American Planning Association, The Canadian Journal of Political Science, Global Environmental Politics, Organization & Environment, Natural Resources Journal, Environment, Politics and the Life Sciences, International Environmental Agreements, and The Environmental Change and Security Project Report. McDonald has presented papers at annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the International Studies Association, the American Planning Association, and the American Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Mari Frank Interviews Madison Ayer of ID Watchdog and Evan Hendricks of Privacy Times

Madison Ayer - Vice President, Strategy and Policy for ID Watchdog
Madison develops collaborative relationships with consumer advocates, regulatory agencies, consumer protection groups that are concerned with identity theft protection. Ayer takes the lead as ID Watchdog's representative in helping to define best practices and industry standards within the identity security industry. Ayer began researching identity theft solutions while working with an accounting firm in Milton Keynes, England. He worked as a venture capital analyst for Bolder Venture Partners, before co-founding a successful credit consultancy in 2003. Ayer studied at the college of Engineering at Cornell University.
Evan Hendricks - Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times
Since 1981, Evan has been Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times, a biweekly, Washington-based newsletter that reports on privacy and information law, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Evan has researched and written many articles on Congressional and State legislative actions, judicial opinions, industry trends and actions, executive branch policies and consumer news as they related to the FCRA.
Evan is qualified by the federal courts in FCRA and identity theft cases and he has served as an expert witness in Congressional hearings testifying on Identity Theft, Credit Reports, Privacy, Social Security Numbers and more. He has consulted with private companies like Experian and also governmental agencies the US Postal Service.
He is also the author of several books including:
Credit Scores and Credit Reports: How The System Really Works, What You Can Do (Privacy Times, 2004)
Your Right To Privacy: A Basic Guide To Legal Rights In An Information Society (2nd Edition, Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), (Includes a chapter on credit reporting)
Former Secrets: Government Records Made Public Through The Freedom of Information Act (Campaign For Political Rights, 1982)
Evan also lectures about privacy issues nation wide and internationally including Wales, Paris, Venice, the Hague in the Netherlands
Evan is also considered an expert by the media. He has been on Nightline. World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN News Watch, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, various local affiliates, and such shows as the Oprah Winfrey Show and Geraldo, regarding a wide range of privacy issues.
He is quoted regularly by major and small newspapers (including The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Money Magazine), regarding issues of privacy generally and the privacy implications of consumer reporting specifically.
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Mari Frank Interviews Susie Vanderlip, Author and Speaker

Mari Frank Interviews Tom Johnson, Chairman of the California Sciences Institute

Dr. Johnson is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California Sciences Institute, and also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the SANS Technology Institute. Dr. Johnson is one of the founding partners of the Forensic Data Center a company focused on computer forensics He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Michigan State University and his Doctorate from the University of California - Berkeley.
Dr. Johnson founded the Center for Cybercrime and Forensic Computer Investigation, and the Forensic Computer Investigation Graduate program. Additionally, Dr. Johnson was responsible for developing the on-line program in Information Protection and Security and also founded the Graduate National Security program offered at two of our National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratories in California and New Mexico.
Currently, Dr. Johnson serves as a member of the FBI Infraguard program; and also is a member of the Electronic Crime Task Force, New York Field Office, U.S. Secret Service. The United States Attorney General appointed Dr. Johnson a member of the Information Technology Working Group, and he served as Chair, Task Force Group on Combating High Technology Crime for the National Institute of Justice. Dean Johnson was also appointed an advisor to the Judicial Council of California on the Court Technology Task Force by the California Supreme Court.
Dr. Johnson has published five books, 13 referred articles; holds copyright on 4 software programs and his chapter on "Infrastructure Warriors: A Threat to the U.S. Homeland by Organized Crime," was published by the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. In addition to lecturing at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, he has also lectured at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and numerous universities.
Dr. Johnson has appeared in both State and U.S. Federal courts as an expert witness and was a member of the Select Ad Hoc Presidential Investigative Committee and consultant to the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in the case of Sirhan B. Sirhan regarding evaluation of ballistics and physical evidence concerning the assassination of United States Senator, Robert F. Kennedy.

Mari Frank Interviews Aurea McGarry, Author and Survivor

Aurea was born and raised in New York City. Her father was a multimillionaire businessman and her mother was a beautiful model.
Aurea enjoyed an upscale lifestyle in Manhattan until her father was brutally murdered, gangster-style when she was only fifteen years old. Forced to give up an elite private school and her dream of becoming an Olympic figure skater, she entered the work force.
Aurea attended college and studied at the New York Academy Of Theatrical Arts, Herbert Bergdorf Acting Studio, Phil Black and Luigi's Dance Studio's to pursue her aspirations of being a success in the entertainment world one day.
She has worked on the soap opera "The Edge of Night" and appeared in many infomercials, movies, plays and Mystery Dinner Theatre shows. She's also had great success with a leading cosmetic company. And she was a professional White Face Clown for over twenty years.
Her first marriage to a pastor's son was physically and verbally abusive. Aurea didn't want her daughter to continue to grow up in an abusive environment and found the courage to leave. With the support of her mom, stepfather and the wonderful women associated with her in the cosmetic company.
Aurea faced many other struggles in her life. She lost her mother to cancer, later her brother was also treated for Hodgkin's Cancer and a short time later Aurea was diagnosed with cancer herself, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. After surgery and grueling chemotherapy which almost killed her, the surgeon told her she'd never be able to speak above a faint whisper because they had to remove a major nerve to her vocal cord. Besides the vocal cord the surgeon removed half of her left lung, part of her right lung, the lining around her heart, her thymus and disconnected half of her diaphragm.
She has been cancer-free now since 2000 and can talk just fine despite the grim diagnosis.
Aurea went on to become Mrs. U.S. Beauty Of Georgia 2003. Also winning the title of Most Inspirational contestant.
She now travels the country speaking her message of hope, faith and having a great sense of humor. Your organization can request her by emailing your request to liveyourlegacy@gmail.com

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 (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 Privacy Laws, Celebrities and Privacy, 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, and "the paper of record for lawyers and others interested in privacy rights," according to U.S. News and World Report.
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.
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