KUCI: Privacy Piracy

James D. Scurlock is a Independent documentary film director and producer. He attended the prestigious Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and has no formal film training. In 2002, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking. His first film, Parents of the Year, has been featured in over 25 film festivals and won numerous awards. He is currently in post-production on his third film, Maxed Out, a study of Americans and debt. Stumped! is his first feature film. Tonight's show enlightens you to the truth about how our credit system works and doesn't work. You'l hear some of the outrageous real life stories that James ued in his award winning documentary that will be released soon.

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Linda Foley, former identity theft victim and her husband Jay Foley are the founders and Co-Directors of The Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego California. They will tell you what they do to help consumers protect themselves and what to do if you become a victim on identity theft.

Dr. Lawrence A. Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research think tank dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy risk management and the development of the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework.

Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for information ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute and is faculty of CyLab. He serves on the Unisys Corporation?s Security Leadership Institute Board and the IBM Privacy Management Council.

This interview focuses on recent surveys of Americans' perceptions of surveillance, outsourcing, and workplace privacy.

BOB SULLIVAN is a technology writer for MSNBC who has concentrated on technology crime and consumer fraud. He is the nation's leading journalist covering identity fraud having written more than 100 articles on the subject since 1996. His work appears on several MSNBC partner sites including MSN.com, Wall Street Journal Interactive, and ZDNet.com. Sullivan also appears on air on MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, and various local NBC affiliates. He is the winner of the prestigious 2002 Society of Professional Journalists Public Service Award for his series of articles about online fraud. He has spoken before trade and government groups including the National Association of Attorney Generals. He lives in Maltby, Washington with his golden retriever, Lucky.

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," Schneier is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.

His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as "the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published." His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called by Fortune "[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use." His current book, Beyond Fear, tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security.

Bruce Schneier is the founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., a leading protector of networked information -- the inventor of outsourced security monitoring and the foremost authority on effective mitigation of emerging IT threats.

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Mary Culnan is the Slade Professor of Management and Information Technology at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. Her current research interests include privacy, promoting security on home computers, and online communities. She is the author of more than ninety articles including publications in the MIS Quarterly, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, The Information Society, Management Science, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

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

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.

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.

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.)