KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Nov 7, Richard Purcell - CEO Corporate Privacy Group, Former Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft. Richard Purcell is a leading voice in addressing consumer privacy and data protection challenges, domestically and internationally. In 2003, Mr. Purcell formed Corporate Privacy Group, an independent consulting firm focused on establishing sustainable, affordable privacy programs. Mr. Purcell advises For...

Stephany Alexander is the CEO/Founder of WomanSavers.com which is home to the "World's Largest Database Rating Men" targeting abusive and cheating men with over 20,000 men entered by women worldwide. WomanSavers receives over 1 million hits per month, is in the top 5% most popular women's website in the world and has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, Esqu...

Oct 24, Micki Krause - Chief Information Security Officer, Pacific Life Insurance Co. Micki Krause has held positions in the Information Security profession for the past 20 years. She is currently the Chief Information Security Officer at Pacific Life Insurance Company in Newport Beach, California, where she is accountable for directing the Information Protection and Security Program for the enter...

Sean Hoar, a US Attorney with the Department of Justice handles white collar crime and high tech crimes including identity theft, cyber crime and pornography crimes. H coordinates the CyberSafe Initiative, and coordinates and annual regional financial conference as well as a national seminar on identity theft.

Joanne 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 Intern...

Ghazal Omid, Iranian expatriate author of Living in Hell, an autobiography and political memoir has caused quite a controversial stir in ultra-conservative Iranian society. Omid is possibly the first Muslim woman to challenge a traditional taboo in speaking out publicly against child abuse and incest among some Iranian families and to challenge Iranian society which prefers to hush up rather than...

Katherine Bryant, Vice President of Consumer Advocacy for ChoicePoint tells how consumers can get free background information about themselves and also what ChoicePoint does when it collects sensitive information. Visit www.choicetrust.com

Sr. Vice President, Marketing at RedCannon, John brings a decade of security marketing experience to RedCannon. Mr. Jefferies joins us from Teros, where he drove marketing for the leader in Web application firewalls until it was acquired by Citrix. Prior to Teros he was VP of Marketing at Silicon Defense at where he raised the visibility of the worm threat and defined the Worm defense space. He ha...

Daniel C. Tsang is UCI's Asian American Studies, politics and economics bibliographer. He runs the Social Science Data Archives at the University of California, Irvine. Since 1993, he has hosted "Subversity", a public affairs interview show at KUCI, and for many years covered "civil unliberties" for OC Weekly. He has written op eds for the Los Angeles Times on First Amendment issues. He co-founded...

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 s...

Mr. Joel S. Lisker was most recently the Senior Vice-President for Security and Risk Management for MasterCard International. In this capacity he served as the company's world-wide senior security representative for all matters relating to the fraudulent use of its numerous card products. He was instrumental in developing technical solutions and strategies to thwart the efforts of organized crime,...

Mr. Davis, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, is a member of the Litigation Group of the Orrick law firm. Mr. Davis advises clients on a wide range of legal and governmental issues. He concentrates his practice in civil litigation, with particular focus on securities fraud and accounting irregularities cases, antitrust, government contracts and commercial litigation, and legal crisis manage...

Randy V. Sabett, CISSP, is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he is a member of the Information Security & Internet Enforcement and Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Groups. He counsels clients on information security, privacy, IT licensing, and patents, dealing with such issues as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital and...

In the information age where sensitive customer data is being stolen and privacy intrusions are vast, new technologies have arisen to protect companies, their employees and customers. Join Host Mari Frank, Esq. as she interviews the data protection experts and their new technologies to protect you and your private information at the Data Protection Conference that was held recently in Orange Count...

Shirin Sinnar is a staff attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, where she works on racial and ethnic profiling, employment discrimination, and other civil rights and workers' rights issues with a particular focus on the South Asian community. Prior to joining the Caucus, she served as an Equal Justice Works fellow with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area on post-9/11...

Mike German is a Policy Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office. In this capacity German develops policy positions and pro-active strategies on pending legislation and executive branch actions concerning domestic surveillance, data mining, freedom to travel, medical and financial privacy, ID cards, immigration policy, whistleblower protection, military commis...

Robert J. Rebhan is a nationally renowned expert and speaker on identity theft and financial crimes, and a former Detective Sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department. During his exciting career with the LAPD, he served in many high profile assignments including the SWAT Team, Hollywood's Narcotics, Robbery, Homicide, and Vice Squads. As a detective, he was a master of disguise and during his...

n February 2007, Shirley Durham was named Director of Programs and Special Projects for Ponemon Institute, LLC, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices, which is located in Traverse City, Michigan. Ms. Durham joined Ponemon Institute after retiring from Ford Motor Company (Ford) with more than 30 years of service, during which she held a variety of mana...

Investigator Gene Inouye is currently assigned to the Orange County Sheriff's Department's Economic Crimes Unit and is responsible for investigating various financial crimes including: identity theft, financial elder abuse, real estate fraud, credit/check fraud, and securities fraud. Over Investigator Inouye's 16 year law enforcement career, he has worked a variety of assignments including: court...

Beth Givens is founder and director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), a nonprofit advocacy, research, and consumer education program located in San Diego, California. The PRC was established in 1992 with funding from the California Public Utilities Commission's Telecommunications Education Trust. It is an independent program of the Utility Consumers' Action Network, a nonprofit organizati...

Robert D. Brownstone is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LL, a 250-attorney Silicon-Valley based law firm, specializing in providing comprehensive services to technology and life sciences clients of national and international prominence. Robert advises clients on electronic discovery, electronic information management, compliance and retention/destruction policies and protoc...

Chris Jay Hoofnagle is senior staff attorney to the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and senior fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. His focus is consumer privacy law. He is admitted to practice law in California and the District of Columbia. Mr. Hoofnagle was the former director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's West Coast Office in San Franci...

During Ken's three decades of entrepreneurship, he has created a series of successful technology companies, including the Video Graphics Corporation, Spectrum Electronics, AEA, and MeetChina.com. In 1995, Ken launched TABNet, a web hosting pioneer that grew to more than 150 employees and 100,000 customers before NTT/Verio acquired it in 1998. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Meet...

PHILIP L. GORDON is a shareholder in the Denver office of Littler Mendelson, P.C., the largest law firm practicing exclusively labor and employment law. Mr. Gordon chairs the Firm's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group. He regularly counsels Fortune 500 companies, as well as medium-sized and small businesses, concerning compliance with recently enacted state data protection laws, the HIPAA P...

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 Interna...