KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank,Esq. interviews David Szwak, Esq. Consumer Credit Expert

David A. Szwak, a native of Baton Rouge, was admitted to the Louisiana Bar in 1991. He is a double LSU graduate having earned his Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Business Analysis at LSU and his law degree from LSU Law Center. He is a consumer credit attorney and partner with Bodenheimer, Jones, Szwak & Winchell, in Shreveport. Mr. Szwak is admitted to practice in Louisiana, as well as the federal courts of the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of Louisiana, the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, the Northern,Eastern and Southern Districts of Texas, the District of Arizona, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. He also frequently practices pro hac vice in most other federal and state jurisdictions. He has authored many legal articles, frequently lectures, and regularly litigates consumer credit, privacy, defamation and fraud cases. He also provides expert witness services in Fair Credit Reporting Act cases and related issues. His services include consultation, evaluation, assistance in drafting pleadings and discovery, depositions, expert reports and analysis, and testimony. A listing of his expert witness cases is available on his law firm web site www.bjswlaw.com. www.myfaircredit.com

Mari Frank Interviews David McCain Detective- Cyber Crime

David Mc Cain is a Detective with the Huntington Beach Police Department. He has been assigned to the High Tech Crimes Unit since 2001. His assignment includes investigating high tech crimes and assisting other investigators with various other types of crimes where the Internet or when a computer was used. He also performs computer forensic examinations on various media containing digital evidence. In the year 2000, he was named Investigator of the Year by his department. He shares the inside information about cyber crime, cyber stalking and cyber identity theft.

Mari Frank interviews Claire Miller victim of Cyber Identity theft.

Claire Miller is a successful professional with 18 years' experience in the publishing industry, living and working in Manhattan for the past 11 years. In September 2005, she began receiving visits and telephone calls from strangers-men who claimed to have communicated with her online through e-mails, chat rooms, and instant messaging (IMing). Through some of these men, she discovered that a cyber stalker had put up information on websites pretending to be her. She thinks he hacked into a high school friend's e-mails, gathering personal information about her. This stalker has impersonated her not only in direct correspondence with men online, but also by posting at least three profiles on personals websites, some of which listed her full name, home address, and home telephone number.She was featured in the New York Times in April 2006.

Mari Frank interviews Lance James, Information Security Scientist

Lance James (author of Phishing Exposed) has been involved in information security for more than 10 years, providing consultation to governments, start-ups, Fortune 500 companies and America's top financial institutions. He has devised techniques to prevent, track, and detect online fraud as a chief scientist with Secure Science Corporation (www.securescience.net), a security software company that is busy tracking over 53 phishing groups.)

Mari Frank, Esq. interviews Canada Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian and Privacy Expert Peter Hope-Tindell

Dr. Cavoukian is Ontario's first Information and Privacy Commissioner to be reappointed for a second term. Initially appointed in 1997, her role in overseeing the operations of the freedom of information and privacy laws in Canada's most populous province was extended to 2009. Like the provincial auditor, she serves as an officer of the legislature, independent of the government of the day. Mr. Hope-Tindall is Technical Director and Chief Privacy Architect of dataPrivacy Partners Ltd., a Canadian based privacy consultancy.
Formerly, he was special advisor to the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario for biometrics and cryptography where he conducted privacy audits and assessments and monitored the development of large government systems having a significant privacy component. Mr. Hope-Tindall also represented the province of Ontario at the 1998 Canadian encryption policy discussions from which the template for Canada's national encryption policy arose.

Mari Frank, Esq. interviews Lillie Coney, Assoc. Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center

Ms. Coney is Associate Director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Her issue areas include nanotechnology, surveillance, children's privacy, civil rights and privacy, coalition development, spectrum, census, and electronic voting. Ms. Coney also serves as Coordinator of the recently established National Committee on Voting Integrity (NCVI). NCVI was created in 2003 in response to growing concerns about the reliability of electronic voting systems. Lillie will share the insidious nature of the lack of transparency in voter registration, voting machines and elections. Our liberty is dependent on our confidentiality and privacy in the voting process. She will also tell you the dangers in the myriad types of surveillance in our modern society.

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Kirk Herath, Chief Privacy Officer Nationwide Insurance Companies

Kirk Herath is the Chief Privacy Officer for Nationwide Insurance Company and President of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Additionally he sits on the Privacy Advisory Board of the US Homeland Security. Kirk 's company recently did a survey to see the difference in impact upon identity theft victims among the general population versus the African American and Hispanic communities. Listen in and find out the surprising results and also find out what the Homeland Security Privacy Committee is doing to protect citizens from governmental privacy invasions.

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Ron Hemphill, reformed ID Thief, and Eric Drew, former ID theft victim

Ron Hemphill, former convicted ID thief with a former career as a successful criminal, tells how he was able to pay employees in banks, credit reporting agencies and hospitals to give him sensitive information to steal the identities of his best prospects. He tells how the companies are facilitating this crime. Then in the 2nd 1/2 hour, Eric Drew shares his heartwrenching story of how he was on his deathbed with a rare form of cancer when a lab tech in the hospital stole his identity- like a vulture abusing it's dying prey. Eric's instpiring story reveals how he regained his health and his identity against all odds. Don't miss this show.

Mari Frank Interviewsd Carol DiBattiste, Privacy Officer, ChoicePont

Carol DiBattiste attorney and Chief Privacy Officer of Choicepoint explains what happened with their security breach, the $15 million stiplation with the Federal Trade Commission as to what they must now do to be compliant, and how they are now offeing free public record reports on-line to consumers.

Mari Frank, Esq. Interviews Fran Maier Executive Director/President Truste.org April 5

Fran Maier, Executive Director and President of Truste.org is nationally know for her expertise in on-line privacy and marketing best practices. She'll tell you what to look for in order to trust a company on-line and she'll tell you how to protect yourself from phising and spam. Don't miss htis show.