KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank, Esq Interviews Privacy and Technology Director and Lawyer, Robert Brownstone

Robert D. Brownstone is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LL, a 250-attorney Silicon-Valley based law firm, specializing in providing comprehensive services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence.
Robert advises clients on electronic discovery, electronic information management, compliance and retention/destruction policies and protocols. He also regularly collaborates with clients and colleagues to assess and implement computer support solutions for litigations and transactions.
A nationwide speaker and writer on many law and technology issues (including privacy law), Robert is frequently quoted in the press as an expert on electronic information. Last year he was named by Law & Politics magazine as a Northern California "Super Lawyer" and was featured in the cover story of the August issue of ABA Law Practice magazine.
Mr. Brownstone is a member of four state bars (including California and New York), of the Information Systems Auditing and Control Association (ISACA) and of the executive committees of the State Bar of California's Law Practice Management and Technology (LPMT) Section and the Santa Clara County Bar Association's High Technology Section.
Prior to joining Fenwick & West in 2000, Robert had a varied 13-year career as a litigator, law school administrator, law school teacher and consultant. He received his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Brooklyn Law School in 1986 and his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1982.
www.fenwick.com

Mari Frank Interviews Chris Hoofnagle, Privacy ExpertAttorney, Samuelson Law, Technology U. of Ca. Berkeley

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is senior staff attorney to the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and senior fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. His focus is consumer privacy law. He is admitted to practice law in California and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Hoofnagle was the former director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's West Coast Office in San Francisco, California. He has testified before Congress on privacy and Social Security Numbers, identity theft, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Security Breaches and before the Judicial Conference of the U.S. on public records and privacy.
Chris' past work has focused on financial services privacy, gender and privacy, commercial profiling and telemarketing, commercial data brokers, and the privacy implications of emerging technologies including invasive advertising and Digital Rights Management.
He participated in the Amy Boyer case, where the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that information brokers and private investigators can be liable for the harms caused by selling personal information. His writings on the First Amendment and privacy have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Knight Ridder News Service, and in law journals at Columbia Law School, Notre Dame Law School, the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill, and at the University of Illinois . Chris is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and is a member of the California, Maryland, and District of Columbia Bars.During Summer 1999, Chris was a law fellow for the American Association of University Professors.

Mari Frank Interviews Ken Leonard, CEO Scan ALert, Technology Expert

During Ken's three decades of entrepreneurship, he has created a series of successful technology companies, including the Video Graphics Corporation, Spectrum Electronics, AEA, and MeetChina.com. In 1995, Ken launched TABNet, a web hosting pioneer that grew to more than 150 employees and 100,000 customers before NTT/Verio acquired it in 1998. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Meet World Trade, GameWorld Technologies, D-achieve, PeerPC and OnMap. He also serves on the advisory board of Global Internet Ventures, an international venture capital investment fund, and is a member of the Information Systems Security Association. Ken studied medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria, and radio astronomy at the University of Florida.
www.scanalert.com

Mari Frank Interviews Attorney Phil Gordon, Privacy Expert for the Workplace

PHILIP L. GORDON is a shareholder in the Denver office of Littler Mendelson, P.C., the largest law firm practicing exclusively labor and employment law. Mr. Gordon chairs the Firm's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group. He regularly counsels Fortune 500 companies, as well as medium-sized and small businesses, concerning compliance with recently enacted state data protection laws, the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and the European data protection laws; security incident response, background checks, workplace monitoring of employee communications, and other privacy and information security issues. In addition, he has substantial experience representing employers in trade secret, wrongful termination, and privacy-related litigation.
Mr. Gordon has taught privacy and data security law as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Privacy Officers Advisor, the monthly publication of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Mr. Gordon lectures and publishes extensively on privacy and data protection issues. He is co-author of the book "HIPAA Privacy For Employers."

mari Frank Inerviews Chief, California Office Of Privacy Protection

oanne 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.

Mari Frank Interviews Matt Isaccson, Fraud Specialist, Cpp North America

Matt Isaacson is Director of Product Marketing with CPP North America, LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of CPP Group, an international provider of life assistance products and services. Its international headquarters is in York, England, but CPP has offices throughout the United Kingdom as well as in the United States, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore and maintains a worldwide base of over 10 million customers. CPP North American headquarters are located in Minneapolis, MN.
In his role as Director of Product Marketing, Mr. Isaacson helps drive new opportunities for CPP's partnering with companies to help consumers meet their needs with a variety of products including privacy and identity theft.

Mari Frank Interviews Cyber Security Expert Neal O’Farrell

Neal O'Farrell is one of the top 20 security experts in the world.

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Smith, Publisher 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, 64, 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.
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.
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 Computer and Privacy Expert Dr. Mike Willett

Dr. Michael Willett received his BS degree from the US Air Force Academy and his Masters and PhD in mathematics from NC State University. After a career as a university professor of mathematics and computer science, Michael joined IBM as a design architect, moving into IBM's Cryptography Competency Center. Later, Dr Willett joined Fiderus, a security and privacy consulting practice; subsequently, accepting a position with Wave Systems, working on programmable cryptographic chips used in the deployment of smart card technologies. Currently, Michael is a Senior Director in Seagate Research, focusing on security functionality on hard drives. Dr Willett represents Seagate on the Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors, Technical Committee, and the Trusted Storage Work Group. Michael also chairs the Privacy Framework Project of the ISTPA, developing an operational framework for implementing fair information privacy practices. www.seagate.com

Mari Frank Interviews Scientists in Privacy and Security Scientists at University of California

Chris Davison is the Technology Manager for the two National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research projects known as Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events (Rescue - www-itr-rescue.org) and Responsphere (www.responsphere.org). The research projects are housed at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He has over 20 years of Information Technology (IT) experience and has been working and sometimes lecturing at UCI since 1996.
Chris holds an A.S. in Computer Science, a B.S. in Information Systems, an MBA in Technology Management, and is currently a PhD student in Organization and Management (IT Management). His research interests are in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR), ethics, and privacy. He has presented and published extensively in those areas.
As the Technology Manager for Rescue and Responsphere, Chris is involved with creating smart buildings and IT pervasive spaces. These technologies aid First Responders in saving lives and properties during a disaster. Additionally, Chris and the Rescue group, as one of their primary research thrusts, perform research on the privacy implications of IT and IT instrumented spaces.