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Meet your hosts

Mari Frank

Mari Frank, attorney and privacy consultant, is the creator of The Identity Theft Survival Kit, the audiocassette series Identity Theft Prevention and Survival, co-author of Privacy Piracy (with Beth Givens), and the author of two new books published by Porpoise Press (January 2005): From Victim to Victor: A Step by Step Guide for Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft (2nd Edition, with CD) and Safeguard Your Identity: Protect Yourself With a Personal Privacy Audit. Mari is also the co-host with Lloyd Boshaw of Privacy Piracy a one hour public affairs radio show at KUCI 88.9 FM and www.kuci.org (U. of Ca., Irvine) dealing with all issues of privacy in the information age.

Ms. Frank has testified many times on privacy and identity theft issues in the California legislature and in the US Congress. In May 1999, she was summoned to the White House to a press conference to speak on Consumer Privacy, and the speech was broadcast on C-SPAN. In December 2004, and March 2005, Mari's ninety-minute PBS Television special, "Identity Theft: Protecting Yourself in the Information Age," aired nationwide and aired again in June 2005. Both of her new books were featured as gifts for viewers who pledged support for local PBS stations.

Mari consults with corporations and government agencies and provides professional speaking programs. She serves on the identity theft task force of the LA County District Attorney, and California's DMV Task Force on privacy. She's an Orange County Sheriff Reserve on the High Tech Crime Unit, an Advisory Board Member of the Identity Theft Resource Center, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and she's a member of the Advisory Board of the State of California's Office of Privacy Protection. Mari is a certified trainer for the State Bar of California, a law professor, and currently teaches Conflict Management at the University of California, Irvine.

Mari has appeared on dozens of national TV programs including Dateline, 48 Hours, the O'Reilly Factor, Investigative Reports, NBC and ABC Nightly News, CNN and has been interviewed on more than 250 radio shows. She has been featured in major newspapers and magazines, and her articles have been published in legal journals and magazines. Please find out more at www.identitytheft.org.

Lloyd Boshaw

Lloyd D. Boshaw, Jr. is our radio engineer and sometimes co-host (when he isn't too busy running the board, he asks questions too!) Lloyd has been a General Contractor and Builder for almost 30 years. He also is very adept at fixing almost anything and quick to learn the radio engineering skills. Lloyd is also a qualified and experienced mediator and arbitrator of construction disputes, and he has helped resolved many complex cases to the parties' satisfaction. Lloyd and Mari have been friends since they met in Hawaii in1989 and after many years married in 2001. As a favor to Mari, and as a result of his strong belief that privacy is diminishing in our society, Lloyd agreed to learn the radio skills necessary to team with Mari for this show.

Upcoming Guests

Feb 6, Jeff Carter, Chief Strategy Officer for EyeLock Corp

Samuel Jeff Carter is Chief Strategy Officer for EyeLock Corp. EyeLock is the leading iris-identity solutions company in the world. EyeLock helps governments and businesses around the world overcome the everyday challenges of identity management. EyeLock products are deployed worldwide, including at Bank of America, the Pentagon, the Mexico border with the Department of Homeland Security, the USAF, airports and many other high-security places.

Carter has spent 15 years leading revolutions in banking and technology. He is an advisor to leaders from the Federal Reserve and to emerging technology companies around the globe with a focus on identity and innovation.

American Banker named Carter as one of the industry's top innovators in its yearly ranking -ranking fourth and fifth in 2009 and 2008, respectively. He has been recognized in numerous publications for his business and technical leadership.

Carter holds several patents related to information banking and the monetization of personal information, has authored numerous articles, and is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study in 2009. His business strategy book, No-Limit: The Texas Hold 'Em Guide to Winning in Business, is available in print, audio and ebook for download on Amazon.

www.eyelock.com

Feb 13, Lester S. Rosen, Attorney and President of Employment Screening Resources

Lester S. Rosen is an attorney and President of Employment Screening Resources (www.ESRcheck.com), a national background screening company in California. He is the author of, "The Safe Hiring Manual, the first comprehensive book on employment screening. His newest book is, "The Safe Hiring Audit".

He is also a consultant, writer and frequent presenter nationwide on pre-employment screening and safe hiring issues. He has qualified and testified in the California, Florida and Arkansas Superior Courts as an expert witness on issues surrounding safe hiring and due diligence. His speaking appearances have included numerous national and statewide conferences.

Mr. Rosen was the chairperson of the steering committee that founded the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS) , and was and served as the first co-chairman in 2004.

Feb 20, J. Trevor Hughes, President and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

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, the Home Affairs Committee of the British Parliament and the EU Parliament on issues of privacy, surveillance, spam and privacy-sensitive technologies. He is a member of the first class of Certified Information Privacy Professionals (CIPP) and recently completed, with co-author Reed Freeman, Privacy Law in Marketing, published by CCH.

Hughes has previously served as the executive director of the Network Advertising Initiative, a leading online privacy trade association, and the Email Sender and Provider Coalition, a trade association working on e-mail policy and practices. Prior to these roles, Hughes was director of privacy and corporate counsel for Engage, a leading online media and software company. Before that, Hughes worked as corporate counsel for UnumProvident, where he focused on legal issues associated with advertising and online insurance transactions.

Hughes is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law and has lectured on privacy at Harvard, MIT, the London School of Economics, Boston College Law School, Georgetown University and Northeastern University. He is a frequent speaker on privacy issues at conferences around the world.

Hughes also has significant experience as a media official at the 1994 World Cup, 1996 Olympics and the 1999 Women's World Cup. A native of Canada, Hughes holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law.

Feb 27, Barry Nadell, Established Industry Expert on the Legal Issues Surrounding Employment Background Screening

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.

In 1994, Mr. Nadell founded InfoLink Screening Services, a leading provider of background screening services, and served as the company's president until its acquisition by Kroll, the largest risk mitigation company in the world, in March 2006. On December 31, 2007, Mr. Nadell retired from Kroll as the senior vice president of the Background Screening division after serving at Kroll since March 2006.

Mr. Nadell has been an industry advocate in both Washington and his home state of California regarding background screening legislation havening been personally involved in the writing and testifying on laws which affect background screening. He also participated on the committee for ASIS in producing their Preemployment Background Screening Guidelines and is on the committee to update the Guidelines for 2008.

Mr. Nadell is a founding member and served on the board of directors of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (www.napbs.com), for four years until April 2008, where he was co-chairman of the board in 2006. Mr. Nadell is a licensed private investigator in California and has been an associate member of the American, California State, and Los Angeles Bar Associations, specializing in labor and employment issues. He is the author of "Sleuthing 101: Background Checks and the Law," the only book solely dedicated to the subject of background screening and the laws that govern the industry.

www.barrynadell.com

Mar 5, J. J. Luna, International Consultant Specializing In Personal Privacy And Security

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 intense pressure from the western world, moderated Spain's laws, leaving Luna free to come in from the cold. By that time, however, privacy had become an ingrained habit. In the years that followed he started up various low-profile businesses, built them up and then sold them.

Luna is the author of the book HOW TO BE INVISIBLE: The essential guide to protecting your personal privacy, your assets, and your life. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, profiled in Playboy, and interviewed on the G. Gordon Liddy Show. His bestselling book e-book is Invisible Money.

He is currently an international consultant specializing in personal privacy and security.

www.howtobeinvisible.com

Mar 12, Jon Mills, Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Governmental Responsibility

Jon Mills is Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, and Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility at the University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law. He was Dean of the Levin College of Law from 1999 to 2003.

Mr. Mills served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and served in the House for ten years. He was a member of Florida's highly successful 1998 Constitution Revision Commission, and was named its most valuable member.

He has taught and made presentations at the Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the University of Warsaw among others. He has authored books, law review articles and reports on constitutional law, environmental issues, Voting Rights, and Ethics in Government. His last book "Privacy: The Lost Right" was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

As an expert on constitutional issues, he has been quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post among others. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, ABC, BBC, FOX News and other media. He also produced an Emmy winning show on the Florida Everglades.

As a lawyer, Mr. Mills has appeared in federal courts and the Florida Supreme Court on issues including voting rights, education issues, and privacy rights. His clients have included the Earnhardt family, the Versace family, First Amendment Foundation, the Everglades Foundation, Florida House of Representatives, Fair Districts Florida, and Florida Democratic Party. He is currently counsel to Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP.

He is a scuba diver, licensed pilot and studied karate. He is married to Beth Mills and has two daughters, Marguerite and Elizabeth.

Mar 19, V. James DeSimone, Attorney Specializing in Defending Civil and Constitutional Rights

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 Ben Schonbrun to form Schonbrun & DeSimone. The firm, now Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison represents plaintiffs in civil rights and class action cases, with an emphasis on employment discrimination and harassment and constitutional rights violations, including government and police misconduct.

The firm quickly established a niche in representing plaintiffs in sexual harassment cases in the entertainment industry. He was lead counsel for the plaintiff in the precedent setting case of Mogilefsky v. Silver Pictures, 20 Cal App. 4th 409 (1993) which was the first published California decision to recognize that same sex harassment violated the California Fair Employment & Housing Act.

Please visit: www.losangelesemploymentlawyer.com

Mar 26, Joseph Weiss, an Industry Expert on Control Systems and Electronic Security of Control Systems

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 EPRI Exploratory Research lead on instrumentation, controls, and communications.

He was an invited speaker at the NIST/NSA Information Security Summit. He has provided oral and written testimony to three House subcommittees, one Senate Committee, and a formal statement for the record to another House Committee. He has also responded to numerous Government Accountability Office (GAO) information requests on cyber security and Smart Grid issues. He is an invited speaker at many industry and vendor user group security conferences, has chaired numerous panel sessions on control system security, and is often quoted throughout the industry. He has published over 60 papers on instrumentation, controls, and diagnostics including a chapter on cyber security for Electric Power Substations Engineering and the book Protecting Industrial Control Systems from Electronic Threats.

http://realtimeacs.com/

Apr 2, Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney at the National Consumer Law Center

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 in Lending, and Collection Actions. Chi Chi frequently serves as a resource for policymakers and the media on consumer credit issues. Chi Chi has previously worked in the Consumer Protection Division at the Massachusetts Attorney General's office and the Asian Outreach Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services.

www.nclc.org

Apr 9, Sharon Bradford Franklin, Senior Counsel at the Constitution Project

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, Sharon served as Executive Director of the Washington Council of Lawyers.

Previously, Sharon spent ten years as a civil rights lawyer in the Housing & Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and in the Office of General Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, Sharon began her legal career as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Jane R. Roth, first in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and then on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Apr 16, David Bender, Privacy Attorney and Law Professor

David Bender is a sole practitioner with extensive Privacy, Information Technology, and IP litigation, counseling, and transactional experience. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches Privacy Law. Before retiring from White & Case in 2007, Mr. Bender headed the firm's global privacy practice. He was also a founder of White & Case's IP practice.

Mr. Bender served in-house at AT&T for ten years, during the latter half of which he was responsible for all IP litigation brought by or against any Bell System company. Before that, he spent five years engaged in antitrust litigation. And before turning to the law, he served as an engineer with the Ford Motor Company's aerospace division and as a mathematician with Hughes Aircraft.

Apr 23, Ken P. Mortensen, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer

Kenneth P. Mortensen is Vice President, Assistant General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at CVS Caremark Corporation, where he has corporate responsibility for the information governance and privacy strategy addressing operational and data management needs through an approach that protects individual privacy and assures compliance with federal, state, and local privacy laws and regulations by working with stakeholders to build a culture of privacy and security within CVS Caremark. His responsibilities include developing and implementing an information governance framework, enhancing privacy policies and training, and minimizing the impact on individual privacy while achieving corporate goals.

In 2010, Ken was elected to the board of directors for the International Association of Privacy Professionals or IAPP. Founded in 2000, the IAPP is the world's largest association of privacy professionals with more than 9,000 members in 70 countries. The IAPP helps define, support and improve the privacy profession through networking, education and certification.

Prior to re-entering the private sector, Ken served in the Administration of President George W. Bush as the Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties fficer for the U.S. Department of Justice, where he was the primary counsel and policy advisor to the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General on privacy and civil liberties matters and created the newest independent office within the Department, the Office of Privacy & Civil Liberties. Before coming to Justice, Ken held the position of Deputy Chief Privacy Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where his duties included strategic planning, annual budgeting, staffing and personnel management in additional to counseling on privacy and security issues.

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Jan 30, Eric Sinrod, Host of Audio Podcast on Technology Law Issues

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Eric J. Sinrod is a partner in the San Francisco office of Duane Morris LLP. Mr. Sinrod's trial, appellate, and overall litigation practice, which includes significant jury and court trial experience and advocacy before the United States Supreme Court, has covered a number of important Internet, software, software defect, technology, intellectual property (trademark, copyright, patent, trade secrets), information, communications, commercial, antitrust, eDiscovery, education, environmental, and insurance coverage issues. He has represented domestic and international clients in major class actions and where hundreds of millions of dollars have been at stake. He also has handled numerous matters for smaller companies and individuals. Mr. Sinrod has been highlighted by an outside publication as "the leading IP attorney in the land," and he has been selected by his peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in the area of Cyber Law and annually as a "Super Lawyer" for Business Litigation. Mr. Sinrod has a reputation for being immediately responsive to clients and working efficiently and within budgets. He is considered a thought-leader on electronic discovery issues, which can lead to great cost savings for clients. While Mr. Sinrod is creative in coming up with solutions to resolve disputes, he will fight strategically when that is in the best interests of clients.

Mr. Sinrod is one of the hosts of TechLaw10, a 10-minute audio podcast update on technology law issues. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Time.com, Bloomberg News, Trials Digest, The Wall Street Reporter Magazine, Fox News, The Supreme Court of the United States Blog, CFO Magazine, National Law Journal, Wired.com, Computer World, Cyber Esq. Magazine, Business Insurance Magazine, The ABA Journal, The American Lawyer, The California Lawyer, The Privacy Journal, Intellectual Property Counselor, Career Education Review, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Counsel to Counsel, Lawyers Weekly, Lawyers USA, The Recorder, The Daily Journal, Security Management Magazine, Compliance Week, Investor Relations, IPFrontline.com, Business Credit magazine, SCMagazineus.com, The Village Voice, Corporate Counsel's Records Retention Report, The East Bay Business Times, Law360, TechPulse360, ROBTV, Newsday, Creditline, SlashDot and Japanese public television. Mondaq has announced that one of Mr. Sinrod's columns was the most popular article in the United States in the month that it was published. Mr. Sinrod writes weekly legal columns for Findlaw.com, and his columns also have been published by CNET News.com, USAToday.com, Law.com, Computerworld.com, CNN.com, MSN.com, AllThingsDigital.com and Silicon.com and he has been a regular guest speaker covering legal issues for LAWCAST, the Legal Talk Network, Tech TV, KNX CBS Radio, Live Online News and CNET Radio.

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Mr. Sinrod has been an adjunct professor of law and has published many law review and other journal articles. He is a frequent speaker on Internet, intellectual property, information and communications issues. He has been an advisor to the Cyberspace Law Seminar at Hastings College of the Law, has taught an Information Law Seminar at Golden Gate University School of Law, and teaches a Business Media class at Ex'pression Center for New Media. Mr. Sinrod is a member of the Board of Directors for the Computer Law Association, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Internet Law, the ABA Internet Industry Committee, the Board of Advisors for the Start-Up and Emerging Companies Newsletter for American Lawyer Media, the Advisory Board for the BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report, and the Executive Committee of the Law Practice Management & Technology Section of the State Bar of California. Mr. Sinrod's videos discussing the intersection of law and technology have been featured on YouTube and Google Video.

Mr. Sinrod was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Samuel Conti, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He served as lead trial attorney in a number of jury trials as a Special Deputy District Attorney for the Marin County District Attorney's Office. Mr. Sinrod has been an appellate and trial moot court judge at Boalt Hall and other law schools.

Mr. Sinrod is admitted to practice law in the United States Supreme Court, a number of other federal courts and all California courts.

Jan 23, Malcom Crompton, Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions Pty Ltd

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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 services in accordance with the National Health and Medical Research Council Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans and is the Asia Pacific based Director of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He recently led the establishment of the Australia New Zealand affiliate of IAPP and was its foundation President.

He was Australia's Privacy Commissioner for five years until April 2004. He led the implementation of private sector privacy law that commenced in 2001. He has established a global reputation for his forward thinking on the handling and governance of personal information and has been the invited speaker at many events in North America, Europe and Asia as well as Australia.

www.iispartners.com

Jan 16, Mike Applebaum, physician, attorney and advocate for patients and children.

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Dr. Mike Applebaum is a physician, attorney and advocate for patients and children.

Trained originally in general surgery, he transitioned into diagnostic radiology and limits his imaging practice to diagnostic ultrasound. He is Director of The Anabolic Clinic^SM and President of FitnessMed, Inc., a fitness consulting firm to individuals and businesses.

Known as the Fitness Doc, he firmly believes that "Fitness is the only REAL preventive medicine"^TM available to all, that the sick care system is oversold to consumers and that much of what the public hears distracts them from what is necessary to really achieve good health.

www.AnabolicClinic.com

Jan 9, Debbie Laskey, Brand Marketing and Social Media Consultant

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Debbie Laskey has 15 years of marketing experience and an MBA Degree. She developed her diverse marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Currently, Debbie is a brand marketing and social media consultant to small businesses, start-ups, and non-profits in Southern California. She has been recognized as a "Woman Making a Difference" by the Los Angeles Business Journal and also served as a mentor for the Strategic Technology Program sponsored by the California TeleMedicine & eHealth Center. Since 2002, Debbie has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association's annual web award competition. Follow Debbie on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/DebbieLaskeyMBA) and on her Blog (http://debbielaskey.blogspot.com). Her website is www.marketingandmore.net.

Jan 2, Evan Hendricks, Editor/Publisher and Founder of Privacy Times

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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 presenter at Federal Trade Commission workshops. He has been qualified by the courts as an expert witness in FCRA and identity theft cases. Mr. Hendricks has served as a consultant on privacy issues to federal and state governmental organizations, and businesses. He has been a featured American presenter at events in Paris, France, Venice, Italy, Cardiff Wales, London, England and Ottawa, Ontario. He is regularly quoted in the mainstream media and trade press.

Mr. Hendricks has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College, Columbia University. He attended there after transferring from University of Oregon.

www.privacytimes.com