KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Jeffrey Chester is the founder and executive director of The Center for Digital Democracy. He has been an important force in public-interest media issues for more than twenty years. His book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, will be published in January 2007 by The New Press. In 1992, he co-founded the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Center for Media Education (CME), along with Kathryn Montgomery, Ph.D. Jeff was a co-founder of the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable, and helped write its groundbreaking set of principles for the digital age in 1993. In 1995-1996, during the debate on the Telecommunications Act, he played a key role in fighting proposed deregulatory ownership measures for the broadcasting, newspaper, and cable industries. In 1996, Newsweek magazine named him one of the Internet's fifty most influential people. In 2000, Jeff created CME's project on open access and the future of the Internet, which he transferred to the Center for Digital Democracy upon the establishment of that organization in 2001. He is credited with helping to frame the debate and for uncovering key industry documents that helped expose the cable industry's plans for the Internet. During 2000 he co-led the effort, to impose conditions on the merger of AOL and Time Warner. In 2001, he was awarded a prestigious Public Interest Pioneer Grant from the Stern Family Fund. Under his leadership, CDD played a pivotal role fighting the plans of FCC Chairman Michael Powell, during 2001-3, to further sweep away media ownership safeguards. Jeff led the campaign during 2004-6 to expose how the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, under former Chair Kenneth Tomlinson, was engaged in a pressure campaign designed to weaken news and public affairs programming on PBS.

Prior to his media policy career, Jeff was a psychiatric social worker, investigative journalist, and a documentary filmmaker.

To learn more, visit www.democraticmedia.org .

ames Rule is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. A former fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, he is the author of Private Lives and Public Surveillance and Privacy in Peril, and a winner of the C. Wright Mills Award. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, and New York Times Book Review.

Ari Schwartz is the Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Schwartz's work focuses on increasing individual control over personal and public information. He promotes privacy protections in the digital age and expanding access to government information via the Internet. He regularly testifies before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on these issues.

Schwartz also leads the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) , anti-spyware software companies, academics, and public interest groups dedicated to defeating spyware. In 2006, Schwartz won the RSA award for Excellence in Public Policy for his work building the ASC and other efforts against spyware. He was also named one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers of 2007 by Secure Computing Magazine.

www.cdt.org

Feb 6, Mz. Mugzzi- Author, Professional Medium, Victim of Cyber and Business Identity Theft

Mz. Mugzzi, also known as Mugzzi or Sam, has been working successfully on the internet for over 9 years. She is an author, professional Medium and Radio Host. Most recently she has also been the victim of Cyber and Business Identity Theft. She will tell her horror story and what she had done to remedy the situation.

She started out working an hour a week on her first web site known as Live Advice. At the time she had been teaching part time at two community colleges in the disciplines of Business/Marketing and Computers. She was a faculty member for 7 and a half years. Although her passion was in teaching she had a calling to start operating as a psychic advisor on the internet.

Her popularity grew quickly and the need to teach full time waned to the growing number of callers that was looking for authentic, intelligent, medium readings and life coaching skills. As her callers began to line up back to back for insight, Mugzzi's confidence began to grow and the opportunity to start her own psychic website was born. She took the best of the best and added them to her psychic site known as Predict My Future.com. Gaining more exposure and creditability her career as a psychic medium continued to grow.

The opportunity to begin a radio show happened while she filled in for a friend, Robin Zodiac, on CRNi.net. As her call volume began to grow on the show she decided to start her own show which can be heard on Sunday mornings from 10:00am until 11:00am pacific time. She has recently been joined with a Co-Host, Mark Nelson, to help further promote the gifts of Mediumship readings.

In her spare time she is also assisting law enforcement on cold case files. This is providing an avenue for continued growth and to give back to society. She is also working with terminally ill patients to help them by providing intuitive health readings coupled with various health providers and also, in the event where needed, to help prepare them to cross over.

Currently, Mz. Mugzzi is now working on her book and being available as a radio guest and other opportunities as they arise. With all that going on Mugzzi still hopes to work with script writers in order to get her TV series produced and aired. More will come from this adventurous woman who is striving to bring creditability to the metaphysical industry. Mz. Mugzzi is not another card flipper.

To learn more visit http://www.mzmugzzi.com.

Harry Hammitt is editor/publisher of Access Reports, a biweekly newsletter on the Freedom of Information Act and open government laws and policies. He is the primary editor of Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1975. He holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. He has worked as an information specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and for FOI Services, a third-party requesting company that deals primarily with businesses in the food and drug industry.

He became editor of Access Reports in 1985 and became publisher in 1989. He has written and lectured extensively on access and privacy issues in both the United States and Canada. He is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals and has conducted that organization's annual seminar on business information issues for more than ten years. He was inducted into the FOI Hall of Fame at the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Virginia, in 2001.

Please see www.accessreports.com

981- Present Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times

Since 1981, I have 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). The newsletter ranges from 8-12 pages, 23 issues per year. Thus, I have researched, written, edited and published 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.

1992 - Present Expert Witness

Qualified by the federal courts in FCRA and identity theft cases. (Complete list attached). I have read extensive deposition testimony by credit bureau and credit grantor personnel. This is significant because CRAs and credit grantors do not openly discuss or publish information on their procedures and practices for handling personal data, and the best (and possibly only) sources for finding candid descriptions of CRAs' and credit grantors' procedures and practices in relation to credit reporting data are the depositions of CRA and credit grantor employees in FCRA litigation.

1998 - Present Privacy Expert Consultant, U.S. Social Security Administration

Regularly review policies and practices in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data and Social Security numbers and provide feedback and recommendations.

2002 - 2004 Member, Experian Consumer Advisory Council

Along with other Council members, I provide an outsider's view on credit reporting, marketing and other privacy issues.

July - October 2002 Consultant to U.S. Postal Service

Working with the USPS's Chief Privacy Officer, I assisted in reviewing and editing the re-write of the USPS's Privacy Act notices, with an emphasis on "Plain English."

Recent Testimony Before Congress & The FTC

"Identity Theft: Recent Developments Involving the Security of Sensitive Consumer Information," Senate Banking Committee, March 15, 2005

"The Accuracy of Credit Report Information and the Fair Credit Reporting Act;" Senate Banking Committee, July 10, 2003

"The Role of FCRA in the Credit Granting Process," House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit, June 12, 2003

"Database Security: Finding Out When Your Information Has Been Compromised," Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information, Nov. 4, 2003

Fighting Fraud: Improving Information Security," House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit, and Oversight, April 3, 2003

"Information Flows: The Costs and Benefits to Consumers and Businesses of The Collection and Use of Consumer Information," Federal Trade Commission, National Workshop, June 18, 2003

Books

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)

International Lectures

24th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners (Cardiff, Wales - Presentation published in conference proceedings, 2002)

The 23rd International Conference of Data Protection Commissioners (Paris, La Sorbonne - Presentation published in conference proceedings, 2001)

The 22nd Annual Conference on Data Protection (Venice, Italy -- 2000)

The 16th Annual Conference on Data Protection (The Hague, The Netherlands -- 1994).

In the 1980s, served as an expert consultant to both the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Privacy Commissioner of Australia.

Presentations/Instruction At Recent CLE & Professional Seminars

"The New FACT Act: Challenge & Opportunity," Privacy & American Business, Feb. 9-10, 2004

"Understanding the FACT Act And The Impact of Multi-Agency Rulewriting Process," Glasser LegalWorks, Sept. 28-29. 2004

"12th Annual National Conference," National Credit Reporting Association, Nov. 10-12, 2004

"Advanced Consumer Litigation," Texas Bar CLE, Feb. 10-11, 2005

"Financial Privacy Litigation," (Impact of FACT Act), Practicing Law Institute, February 28- March 1 (New York City)

Professional Societies

Past President and Board Member, American Society of Access Professionals

www.accesspro.org

Industry Certification

FCRA Certification, National Credit Reporting Association (www.ncrainc.org).

Media

In addition to being a paid consultant and special guest on CNN's IMPACT news in 1996, I am 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. I have appeared on ABC Nightline and 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.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. (1979)

Evan Hendricks P.O. Box 302

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(301) 229 7002

(301) 229 8011 [fax)

www.privacytimes.com

Dan Solve, Privacy Law Professor, Author of TheFuture of Reputation

Professor Solove is an associate 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.

Professor Solove began teaching at Seton Hall Law School in 2000. In the fall semester of 2003, he was a visiting professor at the George Washington University Law School. He permanently 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 over 100 articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Associated Press, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Professor Solove recently published a new book, THE DIGITAL PERSON: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE (NYU Press, December 2004), which distinguished Berkeley Law School Professor Pamela Samuelson calls "the best exposition thus far about the threat that computer databases containing personal data about millions of Americans poses for information privacy." The book was recommended in the Wall Street Journal's Recommended Reading column in July 2005.

Additionally, Solove also authored a casebook, INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW (Aspen, January 2003) (with Marc Rotenberg).

Solove has published about 20 articles and essays, which have appeared or are forthcoming in many of the leading law reviews, including the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, and Southern California Law Review, among others.

He serves on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is the president of the Law and Humanities Institute. He has contributed to several amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Daniel J. Solove

Associate Professor of Law

George Washington University Law School

2000 H Street, NW

Washington, DC 20052

Website: http://www.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/

Thomas A Preston, M.D., graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and was for more than 20 years a professor of medicine (cardiology) at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous medical articles, and his articles for the public media have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others. His appearances on national television programs include Good Morning America, Sixty Minutes, and the McNeil-Lehrer Show. He was a plaintiff in Washington v. Glucksberg, U. S. Supreme Court, 1997. Patient-Directed Dying is his fourth book. In his new book, Dr. Preston gives compelling reasons why aid in dying is not suicide when used by terminally ill patients, and why physicians who help them die are not assisting suicide. He shows how outdated cultural attitudes impede understanding of how we die, why many physicians withdraw from their dying patients, and how the sanctity-of-life principle has become distorted to obstruct aid in dying.

Patient-Directed Dying is a manifesto calling for mercy and reason to learn more visit

http://www.tomprestonmd.com/

Mr. Devine joined the firm of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn in March 2007 and is a Partner in the Litigation Department. He represents a variety of clients in state and federal court litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Tim also advises clients on record retention and information management issues, including the challenges posed by recent developments in e-Discovery.

Prior to joining the Firm, Tim served as Managing Counsel in Ford Motor Company's Office of General Counsel. Tim's practice at Ford included significant litigation and client counseling responsibilities. Most recently, he led Ford's response to discovery in government inquiries and class actions. He has handled a variety of litigation, including product liability and class actions and provided legal counsel to Ford's Human Resources Department. Tim launched Ford's Privacy Office and counseled its e-commerce business portfolio, including numerous websites and new ventures. He directed legal and regulatory investigations of major industrial accidents, including complex electronic and physical evidence preservation in industrial settings.

Tim received his B.A. in Government from Harvard University in 1985, his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1990, and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995.

Tim lives with his wife Julie and their children in Farmington Hills. He is a longtime participant in programs to provide legal pro bono legal services for indigent clients and is a member of the board of Metropolitan Detroit YMCA Camping Services.

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Mr. Lisimaque is one of the leading US experts on Smart Cards and application of Smart Cards, working on various US government projects as technical advisor and smart card standard expert. Prior to joining IDTP Mr. Lisimaque worked at Gemplus, a company he founded with four other co-founders, and was part of the Business Development Group, responsible for special projects in North America. In this position, he contributed to various groups including prospects and customers, providing technical and business guidance for the design and application of Gemplus smart cards, hardware and systems, and customized services. Prior to joining the Gemplus team, Mr. Lisimaque was technical marketing director in SGS-Thomson's research and development group. He was the architect of the company's family of smart card components and helped develop the first chip operating system for smart cards. Additionally, he was MIS manager of the SGS-Thomson MOS facility called Eurotechnique, a joint venture between Saint-Gobain and National Semiconductor. There he developed an integration system connecting HP mini-computers, IBM mainframes and DEC semi-conductor test equipment. Mr. Lisimaque holds multiple patents on smart card security and smart card OS design and has high level seats with numerous Smart Card and Security Forums and Associations. Mr. Lisimaque is an honor graduate of the French engineering school, "Arts & M?tiers", where he specialized in automation and electronics.

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