KUCI: Privacy Piracy

Janet Chapman, chief privacy officer for The Charles Schwab Corporation, serves as the primary privacy contact for the company. In this role, she oversees the creation of privacy strategy, policies and standards, and ensures that they are understood and maintained. She also coordinates the execution of privacy legislative and regulatory changes across the company and acts as liaison to various ind...

When interior designer Carole Meltzer lived and worked in Hong Kong her life changed. After meeting with Master Leung (classic compass school Feng Shui) and training one-on-one with him, she received the prestigious title Feng Shui Master. This title is only given from one Master to the next. Upon her return to the United States, she continued her studies and became a Master of Black Hat Tantric s...

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...

Dr. Colin Bennett's research interests have focused on the comparative analysis of information privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. He has published Regulating Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992). He is also co-editor or Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age (University of Toro...

Amber Lindsay is the Communications Coordinator for the NetSmartz Workshop. Ms. Lindsay works with educators, law enforcement, community leaders, and the media to implement NetSmartz into schools and communities across the country. Through presentations and trainings, Ms. Stanford has an extensive background in the Internet Safety Education business. From 1999 to 2004, Ms. Stanford focused her tim...

Jonathon Fairtlough has been assigned to the Hight Tech Crime Unit and has prosecuted over 50 identity theft cases including the ChoicePoint Data Intrusion. He was selected as prosecutor of the year in 2006 by the Southern Chapter of the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators.

Timothy D. Sparapani, a legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office, focuses on lobbying Congress and the executive branch to protect the right to privacy. Sparapani's efforts focus on preventing unnecessary intrusions into Americans' privacy by individuals, companies and federal, state and local governments.

Since June 2004 Scheer has been Executive Director of the California First Amendment Coalition, a nonprofit public interest organization committed to free speech and open-government rights. A lawyer and journalist, Scheer was editor and publisher of The Recorder, a daily legal newspaper in San Francisco, and publisher of Legal Times, a Washington, DC-based weekly on law and lobbying. Scheer practi...

David Bender has extensive experience in contracting, litigation and counseling. He co-chairs the Privacy Practice Group and has been active in counseling on matters regarding privacy and data protection. He and negotiates and drafts all types of agreements relating to Internet, computer software and hardware matters. He also litigates computer related disputes and directs privacy audits and intel...

Bo Holland is a start-up veteran who has been delivering innovative technology solutions to financial institutions for over fifteen years. In 2004, Holland founded Debix and currently serves as CEO. Holland was previously founder and CEO of Works, Inc., which was acquired by Bank of America in 2005. Works develops commercial payment solutions for large organizations and distributes the product via...

Burton Hersh has adroitly sidestepped regular employment and persevered throughout a long and frequently tumultuous career as an independent writer. Following a six-year stint as a Fulbright Scholar and military translator in Germany, he returned to New York in the sixties to more than a decade as a successful magazine article writer and afterwards became a prolific author. He has a colorful backg...

Tom Zeller Jr. writes about technology and society for The New York Times -- a beat he has covered since Aug. 2004. His most recent stories have looked at the crime from the streets of Phoenix, where identity theft complaints are highest nationally, and from a prison in upstate New York, where a young identity thief is serving time. They are part of a larger series of stories under the rubric "Sto...

Betsy Broder is an Assistant Director in the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. In this capacity she helps coordinate the agency's law enforcement and outreach efforts on privacy issues, including data security and identity theft. She also oversees the FTC's other identity theft initiatives such as coordination with criminal law enforcement agencies and consume...

Mr. Zamucen's areas of concentration include Business Valuation, Fraud Investigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consulting and Forensic Accounting. He is a recognized expert witness in this area. Mr. Zamucen received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and his Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from Santa Clara Universi...

Professor Sovern served as law clerk to Chief Judge Frank A. Kaufman of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and practiced law in the litigation department of a major New York City law firm. He is currently working on the third edition of a casebook titled "Consumer Law: Cases and Materials," with Professors John A. Spanogle, Ralph J. Rohner, and Dee Pridgen. He has writte...

Professor of Law, Chapman University Jeremy M. Miller is professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law. Prior to returning to full-time teaching, he was Founding Dean. He has also been a law professor at Western State University. In addition, Professor Miller serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Orange County Lawyer magazine. Professor Miller earned his B.A. from Yale, J.D. cum laude from T...

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-product...

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...

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 wor...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dr. Cavoukian is Ontario's first Information and Privacy Commissioner to be reappointed for a second term. Initially appointed in 1997, her role in overseeing the operations of the freedom of information and privacy laws in Canada's most populous province was extended to 2009. Like the provincial auditor, she serves as an officer of the legislature, independent of the government of the day. Mr. Ho...