KUCI: Privacy Piracy

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Mari Frank Interviews 6 Privacy and security experts in a field interview at the exhibit hall at the California Data Protection Summit. Find out the newest tecnologies and the problems they solve.

Christopher Green practices credit litigation in Seattle Washington. He has represented consumers from all over Washington State including King, Snohomish, Pierce, Kitsap, Whatcom, Thurston, Chelan and many other Washington Counties and has represented residents of Bellevue, Tacoma, Everett, Spokane, Kent, Auburn, Bremerton, Port Orchard, Oak Harbor etc. etc. He handles both individual and class actions. He does over 90% of his cases on a contingency fee basis and has represented hundreds of consumers against credit reporting agencies, banks, credit card companies and debt collectors regarding disputed credit errors. He is admitted to practice in Washington State and is also admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

He graduated from Washington State University with honors and attended the University of Puget Sound. He is a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserve, Washington State Bar Association, National Association of Consumer Advocates (Original Member), King County Bar Association and Federal Bar Association.

Chris also teaches non-attorneys in his course "Correcting Your Credit", held four times a year at the University of Washington's Experimental University. Experimental College.

David Holtzman is a former security analyst and military code-breaker, a futurist, activist, technologist, technology executive, and writer. Throughout his career, he has led initiatives that have radically changed the way people interact with technology.

Holtzman is an Internet pioneer who helped oversee the Internet's growth from its infancy in the mid-1990s through the dot-com boom. As Chief Technology Officer of Network Solutions and the manager of the Internet's master root server, he ran the most critical network in the world - the domain name system - and oversaw the growth of the commercial Internet from 500,000 to over 20 million domain names

Peter Kosmala assists with IAPP operations, strategy and marketing. He oversees membership services and is responsible for all of the association's privacy credentialing programs.

In 2004, Mr. Kosmala helped develop and launch the first-ever, broad-based certification in information privacy, the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP). He has since developed specialized credentialing programs in U.S. government privacy (CIPP/G) and Canadian privacy (CIPP/C). Today, he manages all three programs from course training and exam administration to continuing education.

Prior to joining the IAPP, Mr. Kosmala worked successfully in a variety of consulting, entrepreneurial and corporate environments in business planning, strategic marketing and project management capacities. As Managing Director with strategic consulting firm Progress Partners, Mr. Kosmala advised corporate clients on Internet business strategy and marketing technology integration. As an Associate with online marketing consulting company Upstream Group, Mr. Kosmala authored and presented professional development programs for Internet marketing executives. He also spoke at national events on the topics of online marketing trends and emerging advertising platforms.

Mr. Kosmala spent several years in software product management as Director of Product Syndication for MyWay.com and managed marketing technology operations for Planet Direct, both properties of CMGI, a leading Internet holding company in the 1990s. His roots are in the advertising and publishing businesses at agencies Wells Rich Greene BDDP and EURO RSCG/MVBMS Partners as well as technology publisher Wired Magazine.

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