KUCI: Privacy Piracy

For over 16 years Barry Nadell has been the established industry expert on the legal issues surrounding employment background screening and speaks nationally on the subject. He is also a respected authority on the necessity of verifying employment eligibility in the United States. Mr. Nadell has been an industry advocate in both Washington and his home state of California regarding background scre...

Joseph Weiss is an industry expert on control systems and electronic security of control systems, with more than 35 years of experience in the energy industry. Mr. Weiss spent more than 14 years at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) where he led a variety of programs. He was responsible for developing many utility industry security primers and implementation guidelines. He was also the E...

V. James ("Jim") DeSimone graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1981 and earned his law degree from UCLA in 1985. Jim was admitted to practice law in California in 1985 and has dedicated his law career to providing vigorous and ethical representation and making a difference for those whose civil and constitutional rights are violated by corporations or government entities. In 1990, he joined...

In 1959, J. J. (Jack) Luna sold his outdoor advertising business in the Upper Midwest and moved with his wife and small children to Spain's Canary Islands off the coast of West Africa. Outwardly, he was a professional writer and photographer. Secretly, he worked underground in an activity that was at that time illegal under the regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. In 1970 Franco, yielding to...

Sharon Bradford Franklin is Senior Counsel at the Constitution Project, where her work focuses on the Rule of Law Program, including government secrecy and individual privacy. She works principally with the Project's bipartisan Liberty and Security Committee, seeking to protect Americans' civil liberties as well as our nation's security post-September 11th. Before joining the Constitution Project,...

J. Trevor Hughes is the President and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). In this role, Hughes leads the world's largest association of privacy professionals. Hughes is an experienced attorney in privacy, technology and marketing law. He has provided testimony before the U.S. Congress Commerce Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee, the Federal Trade Commission,...

Eric J. Sinrod is a partner in the San Francisco office of Duane Morris LLP. Mr. Sinrod has been highlighted by an outside publication as "the leading IP attorney in the land," and has been selected by his peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in the area of Cyber Law. Mr. Sinrod is considered a thought-leader on electronic discovery issues. Mr. Sinrod is one of the hosts of TechLaw10, a 1...

Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd, providing high-level advice to private sector and public sector organizations on building trust through excellent data governance, particularly in their collection and use of personal information. He is also Director of Bellberry Limited, a private not-for-profit organization that provides health ethics committee ser...

Since 1981, Evan Hendricks has been Editor/Publisher and founder of Privacy Times, a newsletter based in the Washington, D.C. area. Through the newsletter alone, he has published nearly 3,000 pages covering a wide range of privacy and information law subjects, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Mr. Hendricks regularly testifies before Congress, with four appearances in 2003. He is a regular...

Martha Bellinger served on the Los Angeles Superior Court as both a commissioner and judge for over 20 years. During that time she served in the dependency courts, delinquency courts, adult criminal proceedings, and four years in the family law courts in Pomona. She retired July 31, 2011 as supervising judge of the East District delinquency courts. During her four years in the family law courts of...

Stephen Rohde is an attorney, writer and lecturer in Los Angeles, specializing in constitutional and intellectual property law, including First Amendment, entertainment, copyright, trademark, book publishing, defamation, invasion of privacy and right of publicity disputes. A graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia Law School, Mr. Rohde has written and lectured widely on freedom of express...