KUCI: Privacy Piracy

For over 16 years Barry Nadell has been the established industry expert on the legal issues surrounding employment background screening and speaks nationally on the subject. He is also a respected authority on the necessity of verifying employment eligibility in the United States.

Mr. Nadell has been an industry advocate in both Washington and his home state of California regarding background screening legislation havening been personally involved in the writing and testifying on laws which affect background screening. He also participated on the committee for ASIS in producing their Preemployment Background Screening Guidelines and is on the committee to update the Guidelines for 2008.

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Joseph Weiss is an industry expert on control systems and electronic security of control systems, with more than 35 years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Weiss spent more than 14 years at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) where he led a variety of programs. He was responsible for developing many utility industry security primers and implementation guidelines. He was also the EPRI Exploratory Research lead on instrumentation, controls, and communications.

He was an invited speaker at the NIST/NSA Information Security Summit. He has provided oral and written testimony to three House subcommittees, one Senate Committee, and a formal statement for the record to another House Committee. He has also responded to numerous Government Accountability Office (GAO) information requests on cyber security and Smart Grid issues. He is an invited speaker at many industry and vendor user group security conferences, has chaired numerous panel sessions on control system security, and is often quoted throughout the industry. He has published over 60 papers on instrumentation, controls, and diagnostics including a chapter on cyber security for Electric Power Substations Engineering and the book Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats.

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V. James ("Jim") DeSimone graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1981 and earned his law degree from UCLA in 1985. Jim was admitted to practice law in California in 1985 and has dedicated his law career to providing vigorous and ethical representation and making a difference for those whose civil and constitutional rights are violated by corporations or government entities.

In 1990, he joined Ben Schonbrun to form Schonbrun & DeSimone. The firm, now Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison represents plaintiffs in civil rights and class action cases, with an emphasis on employment discrimination and harassment and constitutional rights violations, including government and police misconduct.

The firm quickly established a niche in representing plaintiffs in sexual harassment cases in the entertainment industry. He was lead counsel for the plaintiff in the precedent setting case of Mogilefsky v. Silver Pictures, 20 Cal App. 4th 409 (1993) which was the first published California decision to recognize that same sex harassment violated the California Fair Employment & Housing Act.

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In 1959, J. J. (Jack) Luna sold his outdoor advertising business in the Upper Midwest and moved with his wife and small children to Spain's Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. Outwardly, he was a professional writer and photographer. Secretly, he worked underground in an activity that was at that time illegal under the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco.

In 1970 Franco, yielding to intense pressure from the western world, moderated Spain's laws, leaving Luna free to come in from the cold. By that time, however, privacy had become an ingrained habit. In the years that followed he started up various low-profile businesses, built them up and then sold them.

Luna is the author of the book HOW TO BE INVISIBLE: The essential guide to protecting your personal privacy, your assets, and your life. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, profiled in Playboy, and interviewed on the G. Gordon Liddy Show. His bestselling book e-book is Invisible Money.

He is currently an international consultant specializing in personal privacy and security.

www.howtobeinvisible.com

Sharon Bradford Franklin is Senior Counsel at the Constitution Project, where her work focuses on the Rule of Law Program, including government secrecy and individual privacy. She works principally with the Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee, seeking to protect Americans' civil liberties as well as our nation's security post-September 11th. Before joining the Constitution Project, Sharon served as Executive Director of the Washington Council of Lawyers.

Previously, Sharon spent ten years as a civil rights lawyer in the Housing & Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and in the Office of General Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Sharon began her legal career as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Jane R. Roth, first in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and then on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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J. Trevor Hughes is the President and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). In this role, Hughes leads the world's largest association of privacy professionals.

Hughes is an experienced attorney in privacy, technology and marketing law. He has provided testimony before the U.S. Congress Commerce Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee, the Federal Trade Commission, the Home Affairs Committee of the British Parliament and the EU Parliament on issues of privacy, surveillance, spam and privacy-sensitive technologies. He is a member of the first class of Certified Information Privacy Professionals (CIPP) and recently completed, with co-author Reed Freeman, Privacy Law in Marketing, published by CCH.

Hughes has previously served as the executive director of the Network Advertising Initiative, a leading online privacy trade association, and the Email Sender and Provider Coalition, a trade association working on e-mail policy and practices. Prior to these roles, Hughes was director of privacy and corporate counsel for Engage, a leading online media and software company. Before that, Hughes worked as corporate counsel for UnumProvident, where he focused on legal issues associated with advertising and online insurance transactions.

Hughes is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law and has lectured on privacy at Harvard, MIT, the London School of Economics, Boston College Law School, Georgetown University and Northeastern University. He is a frequent speaker on privacy issues at conferences around the world.

Hughes also has significant experience as a media official at the 1994 World Cup, 1996 Olympics and the 1999 Women's World Cup. A native of Canada, Hughes holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law.

www.privacyassociation.org

Eric J. Sinrod is a partner in the San Francisco office of Duane Morris LLP. Mr. Sinrod has been highlighted by an outside publication as "the leading IP attorney in the land," and has been selected by his peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in the area of Cyber Law. Mr. Sinrod is considered a thought-leader on electronic discovery issues.

Mr. Sinrod is one of the hosts of TechLaw10, a 10-minute audio podcast update on technology law issues. His work has been profiled in numerous publications. Mondaq announced that one of Mr. Sinrod's columns was the most popular article in the United States in the month that it was published.

Mr. Sinrod has been an adjunct professor of law and has published many law review and other journal articles. He is a frequent speaker on Internet, intellectual property, information and communications issues. He has been an advisor to the Cyberspace Law Seminar at Hastings College of the Law, has taught an Information Law Seminar at Golden Gate University School of Law, and teaches a Business Media class at Ex'pression Center for New Media. Mr. Sinrod's videos discussing the intersection of law and technology have been featured on YouTube and Google Video.

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