KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Richard Purcell, CEO, Corporate Privacy Group

Nov 7, Richard Purcell - CEO Corporate Privacy Group, Former Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft.
Richard Purcell is a leading voice in addressing consumer privacy and data protection challenges, domestically and internationally.
In 2003, Mr. Purcell formed Corporate Privacy Group, an independent consulting firm focused on establishing sustainable, affordable privacy programs. Mr. Purcell advises Fortune 100 corporations and government agencies about achieving the twin goals of respecting and protecting personal information. Through seminars, lectures and writings, he promotes leading practices for consumer data protection and security.
In addition to CPG?s program reviews and advice, their Web-based education curriculum, Privacy Directions?, has become a landmark offering. Designed to support corporations institutionalize privacy awareness, practices, and compliance throughout their employee base, Privacy Directions? is widely deployed in the United States.
As Microsoft?s original privacy officer, Mr. Purcell designed, developed, implemented and oversaw one of the world?s largest and most advanced privacy programs, spanning software development, web deployment, infrastructure management, workforce management, and consumer data handling practices. His corporate office developed and monitored a distributed team of privacy managers throughout the enterprise, including global subsidiaries.
Mr. Purcell holds several significant privacy appointments. He was Chairman of TRUSTe for 2005-2006, currently sits on the Privacy Certification Advisory Board of the Int?l Association of Privacy Professionals, is a member of the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee for the Dept. of Homeland Security and a Fellow at the Ponemon Institute. For more information, contact Paula Purcell, Corporate Privacy Group, at 360.379.0762 or mailto:info@corppriv.com http://www.corporateprivacygroup.com

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Stephany Alexander, Author of Sex, Lies, and The Internet

Stephany Alexander is the CEO/Founder of WomanSavers.com which is home to the "World's Largest Database Rating Men" targeting abusive and cheating men with over 20,000 men entered by women worldwide. WomanSavers receives over 1 million hits per month, is in the top 5% most popular women's website in the world and has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Esquire Magazine, Sirius and hundreds of radio shows. Ms. Alexander is an abuse and infidelity survivor and that is one of the reasons she created WomanSavers in 2002. She is also the author of the book, "Sex, Lies and the Internet," an Online Dating Survival Guide which teaches women how to avoid being scammed, used and abused by men.
To learn more, visit www.WomanSavers.com

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Micki Krause, Chief Information Security Officer, Pacific LIfe

Oct 24, Micki Krause - Chief Information Security Officer, Pacific Life Insurance Co.
Micki Krause has held positions in the Information Security profession for the past 20 years. She is currently the Chief Information Security Officer at Pacific Life Insurance Company in Newport Beach, California, where she is accountable for directing the Information Protection and Security Program for the enterprise. Pacific Life is the 15th largest life insurance company in the nation and provides life and health insurance products, individual annuities, mutual funds, group employee benefits, and a variety of investment products and services.
Krause was named one of the 25 most influential women in the field of information security by industry peers and Information Security magazine as part of their recognition of Women of Vision in the IT Security field and was awarded the Harold F. Tipton Award in recognition of sustained career excellence and outstanding contributions to the profession.
Micki has held several leadership roles in industry-influential groups including the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 and is a passionate advocate for professional security leadership.
She is a reputed speaker, published author and co-editor of the Information Security Management Handbook series.
www.pacificlife.com

Mari Frank Interviews Sean B. Hoar, US Attorney, Cyber Crime Expert

Sean Hoar, a US Attorney with the Department of Justice handles white collar crime and high tech crimes including identity theft, cyber crime and pornography crimes. H coordinates the CyberSafe Initiative, and coordinates and annual regional financial conference as well as a national seminar on identity theft.

Mari Frank, Esq. InterviewsGhazal Omid, Privacy Proponent, Human Rights Activist, Author of Living In Hell, Media Commenator on Iran and the Middle Ea...

Ghazal Omid, Iranian expatriate author of Living in Hell, an autobiography and political memoir has caused quite a controversial stir in ultra-conservative Iranian society. Omid is possibly the first Muslim woman to challenge a traditional taboo in speaking out publicly against child abuse and incest among some Iranian families and to challenge Iranian society which prefers to hush up rather than address this greatly ignored problem and looks down upon the women who have been victimized.
A disturbing truth about Ghazal Omid's life is that it is also the story of millions of Muslim women. As a result of standing up for herself she was shunned by her family which she in turn divorced. Surviving a lonely life was as hard as surviving the Islamic revolution, the Iran/Iraq war and the US embassy hostage crisis, all of which she witnessed up close and personal. Throughout the Iran/Iraq war, with her home in a prime Iraqi target area, she and her mother went to bed at night expecting to be killed in bombing raids. She grew up in an oppressed society that taught children to hate people of different cultures but she refused to hate someone she didn't know. Strengthened by her Islamic education and curious mind, she was not poisoned by the propaganda of a government that was imprisoning and killing its opponents by the thousands.
During her university years, she was abducted by the secret police from the streets of Isfahan, the nuclear plant city. She escaped, temporarily, by jumping from the speeding kidnap car. Seriously injured, she was rescued by people on the street but, soon afterwards, was taken to prison and given a Hobson's choice; sign a document stating the abduction never happened or remain in prison until she did sign it. She describes the fetid prison conditions in which women and babies were being held indefinitely. After being released, she was constantly watched and received threatening letters.
Realizing she was marked for an orchestrated death sentence on trumped up charges, a common occurrence, she fled Iran, thru France to Holland from where, using a fraudulent Algerian passport, she flew to refugee status in Canada; arriving alone, penniless and without language in an alien land. She describes her life in Canada, her personal growth and adjustment to a new culture and how she arrived where she is today; determined to help others with her message.It is important that everyone knows about her experiences. Her unsuspecting contact with an Al-Qaeda sleeper cell illustrates that the enemy we fear is already living among us but we would not know it if 9/11 had not occurred.
She constantly receives threatening hate e-mail in the genre, "God will send you to the devil and you will roast in hell." Her response; "I'll be sure to pay you a visit." She established her website, www.livinginhell.com, not just to promote her book but also her cause--the liberation of Iran through regime change.
Ghazal calls herself "A rebel with a cause," and encourages others not to be afraid of the unknown; saying she lost much but gained more in her liberating process and feels freedom outweighs past abuse and intolerable traditions. Brought to her knees, she nearly committed suicide before she learned to speak up. She believes if she can do it, any individual from any place on earth can do it too. And says, "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. Ghazal is considered a personal privacy and human rights activist. She has become an expert commentator on Iran and the issues of terrorism in the middle eacst. and appears frequently on Fox news and other national media to speak the truth of what is happening in Iran and the interplay between the insurgents in Iraq and the Iranian regime.
To learn more visit::
www.livinginhell.com
www.ghazalomid.com

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

Joanne McNabb is Chief of the California Office of Privacy Protection. Created by legislation in 2001, the first-in-the-nation Office is a resource and advocate on identity theft and other privacy issues. In addition to providing information and education for consumers, the Office also publishes privacy practice recommendations for business and other organizations.
McNabb is co-chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals' Government Working Group and a member of the Privacy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Before starting up the Office of Privacy Protection, McNabb had over 20 years experience in public affairs and marketing, in both the public and private sectors, including five years with an international marketing company in France. Her marketing background gives her an understanding of the commercial uses of personal information that have become a significant privacy concern.
McNabb attended Occidental College and holds a master's degree in Medieval Literature from the University of California, Davis.
www.privacy.ca.gov

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Katherine Bryant, Esq. Vice President Consumer Advocay, ChoicePoint

Katherine Bryant, Vice President of Consumer Advocacy for ChoicePoint tells how consumers can get free background information about themselves and also what ChoicePoint does when it collects sensitive information. Visit www.choicetrust.com

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews John Jeffries, Security Marketing Expert, RedCannon

Sr. Vice President, Marketing at RedCannon, John brings a decade of security marketing experience to RedCannon. Mr. Jefferies joins us from Teros, where he drove marketing for the leader in Web application firewalls until it was acquired by Citrix. Prior to Teros he was VP of Marketing at Silicon Defense at where he raised the visibility of the worm threat and defined the Worm defense space. He has launched and managed major network security and Internet products for both start-up and Fortune 500 organizations, including Receipt.com (acquired by ValiCert), Pario Software (acquired by Lucent), Dascom (acquired by IBM) and Hewlett Packard. John obtained his MBA from the Ivy School of Business in London, Ontario and his BA in Business for Michigan State University. www.redcannon.com

Mari Frank Interviews Dan Tsang Researcher, Radio Show Host, Kate Martin, Esq. Director of the Center for National Security Studies

Daniel C. Tsang is UCI's Asian American Studies, politics and economics bibliographer. He runs the Social Science Data Archives at the University of California, Irvine. Since 1993, he has hosted "Subversity", a public affairs interview show at KUCI, and for many years covered "civil unliberties" for OC Weekly. He has written op eds for the Los Angeles Times on First Amendment issues. He co-founded Asian Americans United (Philadelphia) and Alliance Working for AsianRights & Empowerment (Orange County, Calif.). He successfully sued the CIA for spying on him. The case, Tsang v. CIA, was settled out of court with a promise from the CIA has promised not to spy on him again. He studied government at the University of Redlands and political science and library science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He was a Fulbright research scholar in Vietnam in 2004.
http://kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity
Kate Martin has been Director of the Center for National Security Studies, a non-profit human rights and civil liberties organization in Washington, D.C, since 1992. Ms. Martin has taught Strategic Intelligence and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law School and also served as general counsel to the National Security Archive, a research library located at George Washington University from 1995 to 2001. Since 1988, she has litigated and testified before Congress on the entire range of national security and civil liberties issues. Among her publications are: 'Enemy Combatants,' the Constitution and the Administration's 'War on Terror' with Joe Onek, American Constitution Society (2004); Domestic Intelligence and Civil Liberties, SAIS Review of International Affairs (Winter-Spring 2004); and Secret Arrests and Preventive Detention, in Lost Liberties ed. Brown (New Press 2003). Previously Ms Martin was a partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Nussbaum, Owen & Webster. She graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and from Pomona College.
www.cnss.org

Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Larry Ponemon, CEO, Privacy Researcher and Susan Jayson, Privacy Researcher Ponemon Institute

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 Task Force for the Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO).
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.
Please visit Dr. Ponemon's web site: www.ponemon.org
Susan Jayson
Susan Jayson is executive director and co-founder of Ponemon Institute, LLC. In this role, Susan is responsible for managing the Institute's operations, including research on privacy and information management issues. Susan's background includes marketing, investor relations and corporate communications for such leading organizations as KPMG Peat Marwick, Arthur Andersen and the Financial Relations Board.