KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank and Andrew Serwin interview each other. Andrew Serwin is a litigator and privacy expert and they discuss mediation to resolve privacy issues including class action suits.

Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute. His research interests include executive power and the role of the presidency, as well as federalism and overcriminalization. He is the author of 2008's The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, and the editor of the 2004 collection Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything. Healy has appea...

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. 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...

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books -- including his latest best-seller Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive -- as well as hundreds of articles and essays, and many more academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram," and his blog "Schneier on Security," ar...

Christopher Wolf is a director of Hogan Lovells' Privacy and Information Management practice group. Chris is widely recognized as one of the leading American practitioners in the field of privacy and data security law. Chris has deep experience in the entire range of international, federal, and state privacy and data security laws, including financial and health information privacy laws, as well a...

Matthew Bailey is the author of the new book, Complete Guide to Internet Privacy, Anonymity & Security. Matthew is a lawyer by training and has been passionate about Internet privacy for many years. He holds JD and MBA degrees from the University of Ottawa (Canada) and has been a registered Trade-Mark Agent. In 1998 he obtained his legal qualifications as a Barrister and Solicitor (Ontario, Ca...

Rainey Reitman leads the activism team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Prior to joining EFF, she served as Director of Communications for the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit advocacy and education organization promoting consumer privacy. She is primarily interested in the intersection between personal privacy and technology, particularly social networking privacy, locational priva...

Keith G. Bremer has experience in all aspects of civil litigation and has had the privilege of representing auto manufacturers, auto dealerships, contractors and business owners in trial. Mr. Bremer has been a featured contributor in the Orange County Register, Business Section and has been editorialized in, among others, Newsweek, Forbes, AOL, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal, CBS...

Chi Chi Wu is a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit focusing on marketplace justice for low-income consumers. Chi Chi is an expert on consumer credit issues ranging from credit cards to medical debt to fair credit reporting. She is the co-author of the legal manuals Fair Credit Reporting Act and Credit Discrimination, and a contributing author to Cost of Credit, Truth i...