KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Joseph Ansanelli is CEO of Vontu, Inc, a company that provides information security software that guards against the loss of personal information of customers. With 60 million americans losing their personal information to criminals in securiy breaches in 2005, you'll want to hear what this expert has to say about protection your privacy and sensitive informaiton.

California Senator Jackie Speier, a leader in privacy legislation shares the many issues regarding financial privacy and health care privacy that affect your daily life. She has been a courageous leader in fighting for privacy rights for all Californians. Lenny Goldberg a Sacramento lobbyist who educates assembly members and senators about privacy concerns shares the inside stories on fostoring privacy protections in California and exposes the truth about what the big companies do to obstruct privacy protections.

Mari Frank interviews privacy expert and author Katherine Albrecht. Katherine is the author of the bestselling book, SPYCHIPS which tells you about the insidious uses of RFID -radio frequency identifiers. You'll learn how companies and government is already spying on you and what you should be doing to protect yourself. To learn more about Katherine and other guests go to www.kuci.org/privacypiracy.

Ray Lorenzo found out that his ex-wife's ex-boyfriend stole his identity and committed felonies in New York- since he is a computer specialist, he is unable to get a job in his field because background checksshow him as a convicted felon. This has ruined his career and destroyed his marriage to his 2nd ex-spouse. Listen to thew fascinating story of what he is doing to get his life back.In the second half hour you will hear the heartbreaking story of Lori Campbell who was convicted of a felony that her imostor did. She is desperately trying to get a new trial to prove her abosolute inosense. When you hear these interviews, you will see how this mightmare could happen to you and you'll learn ways to deal with it if it does.

From 1999 until January, 2001 Professor Swire served as the Clinton Administration's Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In that position, he coordinated Administration policy on the use of personal information in the public and private sectors. He was White House coordinator for the proposed and final HIPAA medical privacy rules, and played a leading role on topics including financial privacy, Internet privacy, encryption, public records and privacy, e-commerce policy, and computer security and privacy.