Privacy Piracy

Protect Your Privacy in the Information Age
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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

Mar 15, Jeff Chester - Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy

Jeff Chester is executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), a Washington, D.C. non-profit group. CDD's mission is to foster democratic expression, civic engagement, and consumer protection in the digital media era, focusing on four program areas: Web 2.0 in the Public Interest; Digital Marketing, Privacy & the Public Interest; Network Neutrality; and Promoting Public Health in the Digital Era. CDD filed a complaint with the FTC in November 2006 about online marketing and threats to consumer privacy that directly led to the 2007 Town Hall meeting. In 1996, Newsweek magazine named Jeff Chester one of the Internet's fifty most influential people. His book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy (New Press, 2007), provides an in-depth examination of the online marketing industry. Chester is currently writing a book about global interactive marketing and its impact on society.

A former investigative reporter and filmmaker, Chester received his MSW in Community Mental Health from UC Berkeley in 1978 and his BA in psychology from California State University, San Francisco in 1975. He has been engaged in public interest policy advocacy for more than two decades. In the 1980s, he helped direct the successful campaign to establish the Independent Television Service (ITVS) for public television. In the 1990's, he and Kathryn Montgomery co-founded the Center for Media Education, spearheading a three-year effort that led to congressional passage of the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). He played a leadership role in the development of the FCC's "E-Rate" program in the mid-90s and in organizing the unprecedented grassroots opposition to the Commission's proposed media ownership rules in 2003. Because of Chester's intervention in the merger of AOL and Time Warner, the FTC imposed open access safeguards as a condition of its approval. www.democraticmedia.org

Mar 22, Senator Joe Simitian - 11th State Senate District

Senator Joe Simitian was elected to the California State Senate in November 2004 to represent the 11th State Senate District, which includes portions of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. His public service over the years includes stints as a State Assemblymember, member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Mayor of Palo Alto and President of the Palo Alto School Board. He has also served as an election observer/supervisor in El Salvador and Bosnia, and participated in refugee relief and resettlement efforts in Albania and Kosovo.

In the Senate, Simitian chairs the Select Committee on Privacy and the Environmental Quality Committee. He also serves as a member of numerous other committees.

Simitian received his BA with academic honors, from The Colorado College. He also holds his Masters in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, a Masters in City Planning and a law degree from UC Berkeley.

The Capitol Weekly identified Simitian as one of the half-dozen "Most Effective" members of the Legislature.

San Jose Magazine has repeatedly recognized him as one of the "Power 100 of Silicon Valley", and in 2003 Simitian was selected by Scientific American magazine as one of the "Scientific American 50" Leaders in Technology from around the world.

Joe Simitian and his work have been quoted or noted in publications as diverse as the Atlantic Monthly, Conde Nast Traveller, Mother Jones, People Magazine, and Scientific American. His many media appearances range from CNN to the "Dr. Phil Show", and he has been on our show two times before. He is our privacy hero!

You can learn more about Senator Simitian at www.sen.ca.gov or www.sentatorsimitian.com.

Senator Simitian is on the following committees:

Mar 29, Zoe Strickland - Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer for Wal-Mart

Zoe Strickland serves as the first Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer, for Walmart Stores. In this role, Zoe holds domestic and global responsibility for managing the privacy program for Walmart and Sam's Club, including all privacy policies, procedures, governance, training, and administration.

Zoe is an active participant in the privacy community. She participates in several privacy executive boards and committees, including the Privacy and Security workgroup for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, the Center for Information Policy Leadership, and the Public Policy Steering Committee of EPcglobal. She most recently served on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Zoe is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, and has been quoted in several national news and media sources, including USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio. Ms. Strickland is featured in the book, "Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust," by Ontario Information & Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian.

Previous Guests

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Mar 8, James Grimmelmann - Attorney and Technologist

James Grimmelmann is Associate Professor at New York Law School and a member of its Institute for Information Law and Policy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme and a member of the Yale Law Journal. Prior to law school, he received an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College and worked as a programmer for Microsoft. He has served as a Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale, as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

He studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects individual freedom and the distribution of wealth and power in society. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other. He writes about intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, online privacy, and other topics in computer and Internet law. Recent publications include The Ethical Visions of Copyright Law, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2005 (2009), How to Fix the Google Book Search Settlement, J. Internet L., Apr. 2009, at 1, and The Structure of Search Engine Law, 93 Iowa L. Rev. 1 (2007).

He has been blogging since 2000 at the Laboratorium (http://laboratorium.net/). His home page is at http://james.grimmelmann.net/.

Mar 1, Robert Wood - Tax Attorney and Published Expert

Considered to be one of the leading tax lawyers in the United States, Robert W. Wood has a nationwide tax practice based in San Francisco. The founder of Wood & Porter, a tax specialty law firm, Mr. Wood handles tax controversies, tax planning, and tax advantaged business transactions. He is a frequent expert witness concerning tax matters in litigation.

Although his tax expertise is wide ranging, he is particularly well known for advising on the tax aspects of litigation recoveries and for handling independent contractor vs. employee controversies. A published authority and active speaker on many aspects of the federal income tax law, Wood has written more than thirty books and many hundreds of published articles. He contributes regular tax columns to Forbes and other publications.

Feb 22, Robert Ellis Smith - Journalist and Publisher of the Privacy Journal

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.

Smith is a frequent speaker, writer, and Congressional witness on privacy issues and has compiled a clearinghouse of information on the subject: computer data banks, credit and medical records, the Internet, electronic surveillance, the law of privacy, and physical and psychological privacy.

Smith is the author of Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet (2004), the first and only published history of privacy in the U.S. He is also the author of Our Vanishing Privacy (1993), The Law of Privacy Explained (1993), Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It; Workrights, a book describing individual rights in the work place; and The Big Brother Book of Lists. Privacy Journal also publishes Compilation of State and Federal Privacy Laws, Celebrities and Privacy (2006), and War Stories, a collection of anecdotes on privacy invasions.

The New York Times said Smith "sounds the alarm about maintaining freedom and privacy in the computer age" and called him "a principled critic." Privacy Journal is "a privacy watchdog," according to Time magazine.

Smith has been asked to write the definitive statement on privacy in the last two editions of The World Book Encyclopedia. He has appeared on all three network morning news programs, as well as "Face the Nation," "Nightline," and "All Things Considered." He has been a regular commentator on "Marketplace" on American Public Radio. Smith writes a regular column on the popular Web site forbes.com.

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 had nine years of experience as a news reporter and editor with the Detroit Free Press, Trenton Times, The Southern Courier, and Newsday.

He has taught at Harvard College, University of Maryland, Emerson College, and Brown University.

A 1962 graduate of Harvard College, Smith received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. He served as a member of the District of Columbia Human Rights Commission until 1986. In 1997, Vice President Gore named him to the Civil Liberties Panel of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. From 1996 to 2002, he served as vice chair of the Coastal Resources Management Council, which protects the 400 miles of Rhode Island coastline. In 2004 he was elected to the Town Council of Block Island, R.I.

Feb 15, Natalie Newman - Attorney and Privacy Expert

Natalie Newman is an Associate in the Corporate Department at the law firm of Proskauer in NYC and is a member of the Technology, Media and Communications and the Privacy & Data Security Groups. Natalie is a resident in the New York office of Proskauer. Natalie drafts and negotiates complex transactions in the areas of technology, the Internet, software, intellectual property, e-commerce, digital marketing, online advertising and new media, and regularly represents clients of all sizes and in all industries, counseling them in the areas of privacy, data security, new media, direct marketing, social media and Web 2.0, and in connection with such clients' compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the MMA Guidelines applicable to mobile marketing, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Communications Decency Act Safe Harbor, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, state breach notification laws, and state data security and privacy laws.

www.proskauer.com
http://privacylaw.proskauer.com"

Feb 8, Helen Nissenbaum - Privacy Expert and Published NYU Professor

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University, where she is also Senior Faculty Fellow of the Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media. Nissenbaum's research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited three books and a fourth, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, is due out in 2009, with Stanford University Press. The National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ford Foundation, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have supported her work on privacy, trust online, and security, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design, including search engines, digital games, and facial recognition technology. Nissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Feb 1, Amy Alkon - Award-Winning Columnist

Amy Alkon writes the award-winning nationally syndicated advice column, The Advice Goddess, and has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR, CNN, MTV, Politically Incorrect and Nightline. She blogs daily at advicegoddess.com, can be found on Twitter at amyalkon, and lives in Los Angeles.

Jan 25, Joe Campana - Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Expert

Joseph Campana, Ph.D. is a privacy and identity theft prevention expert. He has appeared on radio, TV and in various publications. He writes regularly about identity theft, privacy and information security topics of interest to small businesses as a featured columnist for Examiner.com. Dr. Campana earned a business and government Certified Information Privacy Professional designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is a Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist and licensed special investigator. Campana serves on several continuing professional education faculties including the Wisconsin Bar Association where he taught privacy and information security risk management and compliance. Dr. Campana authored several white papers including Identity Theft: The Business Time Bomb, Data Breach Risk Factors: 2005-2008: A Resource Guide and he recently wrote a book, a small business guide to privacy compliance, Privacy MakeOver: The Essential Guide to Best Practices. Campana's practice areas include privacy and information security compliance and employment background investigations. He also consults on identity theft and privacy-related investigations and litigation.

Jan 18, David Johnson - Digital Media Expert

David D. Johnson is Of Counsel in JMBM's Litigation Group and specializes in digital media law and complex litigation. To read his views on current digital media issues, visit www.digitalmedialawyerblog.com. David's complex litigation practice includes state, federal and international commercial, officers and directors liability and mass tort litigation.

David received his J.D., 1999, with honors, from The University of Texas at Austin and his B.S., 1978, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University.

Jan 11, Rebecca Herold - Privacy Expert

http://www.theprivacyprofessor.com
http://www.realtime-itcompliance.com
http://twitter.com/privacyprof
http://www.compliancehelper.com

Rebecca Herold, CIPP, CISSP, CISM, CISM, FLMI, "The Privacy Professor," ® has over two decades of information security, privacy and compliance experience. She's been named as a Computerworld "Best Privacy Advisor" multiple times, and also as a "Top 59 Influencers in IT Security" by IT Security magazine. The program Rebecca created was awarded the 1998 CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award. She is currently leading the NIST Smart Grid standards committee privacy impact assessment.

In 2008 Rebecca's blog was named one of the "Top 50 Internet Security Blogs" by the Daily Netizen and in September 2009 her blog was named a "Top 100 Science Professor Blog."

Rebecca assists organizations of all sizes and industries throughout the world. Rebecca has created a wide range of information security, privacy and compliance tools, products and services. She also offers a range of standard and customized one and two-day workshops including one addressing how individuals across disciplines can work together to most effectively assure privacy and regulatory compliance while efficiently implementing security controls.

Rebecca is working on her 14th book, writes multiple monthly columns, creates the quarterly "Protecting Information" multi-media information security and privacy awareness subscription news journal and provides effective information security and privacy tools and online training courses. She also has served as an Adjunct Professor for the Norwich University Master of Science in Information Assurance (MSIA) program since 2004.

You can reach her at www.theprivacyprofessor.com.

Jan 4, Dr. Deborah Peel - Medical Privacy Expert

Deborah Peel, MD founded Patient Privacy Rights in 2004, now with 10,000 members in every state. She leads the bipartisan Coalition for Patient Privacy, representing 10 million Americans. The Coalition added historic privacy rights to ARRA: a ban on sales of PHI, audit trails, segmentation, breach notice, the right to prevent disclosure of PHI for HCO if payment is out-of-pocket, and encryption. Since 2007, she has been one of Modern Healthcare's "100 Most Powerful in Healthcare."
www.PatientPrivacyRights.org