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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

May 28, Jennifer and David Fountain - Victims of identity theft and privacy advocates

David M. Fountain is a professional truck driver for a national transportation company. He is 36 years old, and lives in Essex, Vermont with his wife and two children. He has lived in Vermont for twelve years, and before that he was a resident of New York State. He earned an Associate's degree from Clinton Community College, with a major in criminal justice.

Jennifer Fountain, his wife, graduated from the Fanny Allen School of Practical Nursing, as an LPN and worked as a nurse for 15 years. She is currently working as a Para educator in the Essex Town School System. She is 36 years old as well and has lived in Vermont her whole life. She has spent the past five months learning about Identity theft and its surrounding issues and problems.

June 4, Yolanda Hammond - Auditor, Identity Theft Victim

As an internal auditor Ms. Hammond is trained to identify or improve controls to prevent fraud within her company. She has been able to use some of her skills and training in her personal life. She has always done a great deal to protect her identity, including shredding everything with her name and address, reviewing her social security statement regularly, reviewing her credit report more than once a year, and opting out of telephone and mail marketing.

One afternoon in December 2005, Ms. Hammond was contacted by a credit card company attempting to verify that she had opened an account. She had not opened the account and hadn't authorized anyone else to open an account. She cancelled the credit card and by that evening she discovered there were other fraudulent accounts including a car loan. Ms. Hammond requested a fraud alert be placed on her credit report. From that point on she spent hours disputing fraudulent information, trying to figure out what other fraudulent activities there might be and wondering who got her personal information and how. She now had a second job auditing and analyzing information - almost every day after work she was writing letters, making phone calls, or checking the mail for evidence of other fraudulent activities. Fortunately, her diligent efforts lead to the arrest of the identity thief in early 2006. The thief had outstanding warrants for similar activities and had access to personal information - her information - while employed by Matria. Although the thief is currently in jail you can't help but wonder what happened? How did this person get access to Ms. Hammond's personal information? What could Matria have done to make sure that Ms. Hammond didn't lose control of her life. Hopefully, by sharing her story some companies will make sure they do everything possible to protect customer information and prevent even one person from experiencing the helplessness of identity theft.

Ms. Hammond graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B. S. in Accounting. Immediately following graduation she went to work for a federal contractor as an internal auditor. She has worked at the same place for 24 years and has been married for 23 years. Her job involves performing independent and objective evaluations of the adequacy and effectiveness of management control systems and quality of performance. In this role she performs a variety of audits that ultimately help the company do things right and do the right things. In this interview she will enlighten you to find out what she thinks should be done in companies.

June 11, Byron Achohido - Technology Journalist and author

Byron Acohido is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who covers Internet security for USA Today. He is the co-author of Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity. While at the Seattle Times earlier in his career, he was awarded the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, for stories linking a dangerous defect in the rudder controls of Boeing 737 jetliners to a string of crashes that killed hundreds of people. Since joining USA Today, Acohido has led the paper's cutting-edge coverage of Internet security and cyber crime. The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants recently awarded he and co-author Jon Swartz the 2008 Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards for their newspaper stories about data theft and identity fraud. In 2005, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers awarded Acohido and Swartz the Best in Business Award for Projects by large newspapers; and they were named finalists in both 2005 and 2006 for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Acohido has conducted numerous workshops on aviation safety, investigative journalism and technology topics. To hear Acohido discuss the public's rising exposure to data theft and identity fraud please visit http://zerodaythreat.com.

June 18, Beth Givens - Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

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 organization that advocates for consumers' interests regarding telecommunications, energy and the Internet.

The PRC maintains a complaint/information hotline on informational privacy issues, the only one of its kind in the country. It publishes a series of guides on informational privacy issues. Topics include Internet privacy, wireless communications, credit reporting, identity theft, telemarketing, medical records, workplace privacy, employment screening, unsolicited mail, government records, children's online privacy, among others. These are available at the PRC's web site, www.privacyrights.org.

Givens frequently speaks and conducts workshops on the issue of privacy. She has participated in many media interviews including: The News Hour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), CBS Evening News, CNN, 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Good Morning America, Court TV, NBC Evening News, CBS Weekend News, and major U.S. daily newspapers. She has testified on privacy public policy concerns before the U.S. Senate, the California Legislature, the California Public Utilities Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency.

In addition, Givens has been a member of several task forces examining privacy-related public policy issues:: California Office of Privacy Protection Advisory Committee; Truste Wireless Privacy Committee; Justice Management Institute's Electronic Court Records Advisory Committee; Task Force on Criminal Records Identity Theft; California Legislature's Joint Task Force on Personal Information and Privacy; California Judicial Council Subcommittee on Privacy and Access; Internet Policy Committee of the San Diego Public Library; and the Mayor of San Diego's City of the Future Task Force. She has served on the U.S. Census Advisory Committee, California Radio Frequency ID Advisory Committee, and the California REAL ID Task Force,. Many of Givens' speeches and testimony are available on the PRC Web site under "Speeches&Testimony," www.privacyrights.org/ar.

Givens was awarded a Pioneer Award in 2002 from the Electronic Frontier Foundations. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a 2000 award recipient from The Foundation for Improvement of Justice for its work in assisting victims of identity theft. Givens is a recipient of the 2000 Privacy International Brandeis Award. Ms. Givens contributed articles on identity theft to two encyclopedias: World Book (2004) and Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment (2002). She also contributed a chapter to the 2006 book, RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy. She is the author of The Privacy Rights Handbook: How to Take Control of Your Personal Information (Avon Books, 1997). She is co-author of Privacy Piracy (with Mari Frank) : A Guide to Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft. Givens is also co-author and editor of the PRC's fact sheets, on the Web at www.privacyrights.org/fs.

Voice: 619-298-3396

Web:www.privacyrights.org

June 25, J. Craig Williams - Attorney, Technology Law, Author of "How to Get Sued"

J. Craig Williams is the founding member of WLF | The Williams Lindberg Law Firm, PC® Mr. Williams' practice focuses in the areas of complex business litigation with emphasis on environmental, real estate, land-use and technology law, together with their respective insurance coverage and related tort issues. Mr. Williams also handles white-collar criminal matters.

Mr. Williams is author of How To Get Sued : An Instructional Guide- a witty approach to litigation. From the top 10 ways to get sued to the unwritten rules for dealing with judges, author J. Craig Williams shines an irreverent light on America's court system. The author of the popular blog "May It Please the Court", Williams puts together an entertaining, accessible take on the world of litigation. Readers will walk away amused and enlightened, and with a better view of what the world of litigation is really like in America's courtrooms.

His popular blog "May It Please the Court", which gets more than 13,000 hits daily and is a three-time award winner from the Los Angeles Press Club. His views also are featured on Legal Talk Network, an internet radio show where he is a co-host on "Lawyer2Lawyer."

An accomplished speaker, Mr. Williams lectures as an adjunct professor at the University of California at Irvine on Toxics Law, the UCI Extension Environmental Management Program on The Regulatory Framework for Hazardous and Toxic Materials, Stanford Law School on Environmental Insurance Coverage, the University of Iowa College of Law on Trial Advocacy and at Chapman University School of Law on Legal Writing and Research.

He was a contributing reporter on environmental litigation of the "ABA Real Estate Quarterly Report," and is the author of many articles, including "Son of the California Environmental Quality Act: A Look at Public Resources Code 21081.6," 33 Orange County Lawyer 36 (1991) and Co-author of "The Practical Implications of the Aerojet Decision, California Environmental Law and Remediation Reporter," April, 1998. Mr. Williams' experience includes practice at nationally recognized law firms and has appeared as lead litigation counsel in numerous states.

Mr. Williams enjoys scuba diving and is both a Divemaster and Scuba Instructor, certified by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI). He is also a downhill snow skier, and is certified as a Level One Instructor by the Professional Ski Instructors Association.

He is an avid sailor, having sailed and interned in the Tall Ships Race on board the square-sail Barkentine, the United States Coast Guard Cutter Eagle. He was a member of the Coast Guard Academy Sailing Team in New London, Connecticut. Mr. Williams has also crewed for the America's Cup America3 helmsman and Olympic Gold medal winner Buddy Melges.

jcraigwms@WLF-law.com
http://www.WLF-law.com
http://www.MayItPleaseTheCourt.com
http://www.HowToGetSued.com

July 2, Eric Lichtblau, Prize Winning Author, Author of Bush’s Law ; the Remaking of American Justice

Just months after September 11, the Bush Administration, without court-approved documents, secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the US to search for terrorist activity. Lichtblau's eye-opening reports have helped the public to make sense of this post-9/11 story that questions the reach of presidential powers, and how the government balances homeland security against the civil rights of Americans.

For his work on the domestic spying scandal, Lichtblau is the recipient of a Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and is also this year's recipient, with Times reporter James Risen, of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The Pulitzer jury applauded them "for their carefully sourced stories on secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line between fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberty."

Lichtblau has recently uncovered more government monitoring activities. The Swift story, in which counter-terrorism officials accessed the banking transactions of thousands of Americans from an international database, has alarmed many. The government's departure from typical practice in how they acquire large amounts of sensitive financial data has stirred concerns about legal and privacy issues.

Eric Lichtblau covers federal law enforcement and national security issues for the Washington bureau of The New York Times. Before coming to the Times, he worked for the The Los Angeles Times for 15 years in both California and Washington, focusing on investigative reporting, legal affairs and law enforcement. He is currently working on a book on the remaking of federal law enforcement since 9/11.

Lichtblau is also a guest commentator on television, appearing frequently on CNN, CNBC's Hardball, PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and C-SPAN's Washington Journal. He also appears regularly on NPR's All Things Considered. Lichtblau has given speeches for Cornell University, Syracuse University, Mensa, judicial and academic conferences, and other forums.

July 9, Jonathan Zittrain, Professor, Author of the "Future of the Internet and How to Stop It".

Jonathan Zittrain holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, where he co-founded Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 1996. With students, he began Chilling Effects, a web site that tracks and archives legal threats made to Internet content producers. Google now sends its users to Chilling Effects when it has altered its search results at the behest of national governments.

His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He was co-counsel with Lawrence Lessig in Eldred v. Ashcroft, which challenged the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. The case lost 7-2 at the Supreme Court.

He performed the first large-scale tests of Internet filtering in China and Saudi Arabia in 2002, and now as part of the OpenNet Initiative he has co-edited a study of Internet filtering by national governments, "Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering."

His book about the future of the now-intertwined Internet and PC is available Yale University Press and Penguin UK -- and under a Creative Commons license.

Papers may be found at http://www.jz.org.

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May 21, Deborah Peel, MD - Expert on Medical Privacy

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Deborah C. Peel, M.D. is Chair and Founder of Patient Privacy Rights, a national consumer medical privacy watchdog organization. Peel is a nationally recognized expert on medical privacy. She has been a proponent of retaining the Hippocratic Oath and medical ethics as the foundation for a patient-centered healthcare system for over a decade. She has testified before Congress and NCVHS on medical privacy, genetic privacy, and pharmacy benefits managers. Peel has practiced Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis for 29 years. For eleven years, she was Chief of Psychiatry at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, TX, where she ran the section of 100+ psychiatrists. She is a past President of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians and a past President of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers. Her experiences as a practicing physician, watching the elimination of medical privacy and the resulting harm to patients convinced her of the need for a strong national consumer advocacy organization dedicated to saving medical privacy rights. As a mother and consumer she could not in good conscience leave the design and control of our national healthcare system and protection of patient privacy to industry.

http://www.patientprivacyrights.org

May 14, Preempted for UCI Baseball

Today's scheduled program, an interview with Deborah Peel, has been moved to next Wednesday.

May 7, Alice Silverberg - Professor , UCI, Expert on Encryption

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Alice Silverberg is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, and is Cryptography Area Leader at UCI's Secure Computing & Networking Center.

Her research areas are cryptography and number theory. She earned her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Harvard University and her Masters degree and PhD from Princeton University. She earned a Certificate of Advanced Study from the University of Cambridge. She was awarded Humboldt, Bunting, Sloan, IBM, and National Science Foundation Fellowships and a Research Professorship from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. She has done consulting or research at a number of institutions in the U.S. and abroad, including IBM, Microsoft, Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, Sandia National Labs, DoCoMo USA Labs, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France, the University of Erlangen and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Germany, and Wollongong and Macquarie Universities in Australia. Before coming to UC Irvine in 2004, she was a Professor at the Ohio State University.

She consulted for the TV show NUMB3RS and the documentary "Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem", was an organizer of the Fermat Fest at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and writes mathematically inspired Scottish country dances.

http://math.uci.edu/~asilverb

Apr 30, Chris Hoofnagle, Esq. - Privacy Expert, Senior Staff Attorney, Berkeley

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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 Francisco, California. He has testified before Congress on privacy and Social Security Numbers, identity theft, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Security Breaches and before the Judicial Conference of the U.S. on public records and privacy.

Chris' past work has focused on financial services privacy, gender and privacy, commercial profiling and telemarketing, commercial data brokers, and the privacy implications of emerging technologies including invasive advertising and Digital Rights Management.

He participated in the Amy Boyer case, where the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that information brokers and private investigators can be liable for the harms caused by selling personal information. His writings on the First Amendment and privacy have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Knight Ridder News Service, and in law journals at Columbia Law School, Notre Dame Law School, the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill, and at the University of Illinois . Chris is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and is a member of the California, Maryland, and District of Columbia Bars.During Summer 1999, Chris was a law fellow for the American Association of University Professors.

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/samuelson/

Apr 23, Preempted for UCI Baseball

Today's scheduled program, an interview with Chris Hoofnagle, has been moved to next Wednesday.

Apr 16, Len Bennett - Attorney, Privacy and Fair Credit Reporting Act Expert

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Leonard A. Bennett. Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1965. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia: B.S. 1989, Business Administration (Finance); George Mason University School of Law and Economics, Arlington, Virginia: J.D. 1994. International Committee on Discussion and Debate (ICDD), United States delegation to Russia, 1994. Admitted to Virginia State Bar 1994. Admitted to North Carolina State Bar 1995. Overman, Cowardin & Martin, P.C. 1994-1998, Newport News, Virginia. Leonard A. Bennett, P.C. 1998-present, Newport News, Virginia. Admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 1994. Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2002. Admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2003. Admitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2003. Admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2005. Admitted to multiple other courts pro hac vice.

Member National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA), Virginia State Bar Association, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Newport News Bar Association.

Speaker, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Landlord-Tenant Law 2000, Norfolk, Virginia; Speaker, Virginia CLE Legal Aid Hotline 2002, Hampton, Virginia; Speaker and Panelist, NACA Fair Credit Reporting Act National Conference 2003, Orlando, Florida; Speaker, Autofraud CLE, Norfolk Naval Base, Navy Legal Services, January 2004; Speaker, Consumer Law, Naval Justice School, Newport, Rhode Island, March 2004; Speaker, Virginia CLE, Consumer Protection Law, April 2004; Member Steering Committee, Speaker and Panelist, NACA Fair Credit Reporting Act National Conference 2004; Identity Theft CLE, Oklahoma State Bar, May 2004; Speaker, Consumer Law Section, Michigan State Bar, October 2004; Identity Theft CLE, Virginia State Bar, November 2004; Speaker and Panelist, "Changing Faces of Consumer Law" CLE Seminar, American Bar Association, December 2004; Speaker, Consumer Law, Naval Justice School, Newport, Rhode Island, March 2005.

Presented NACA's Congressional Testimony before House Committee on Financial Services, "Fair Credit Reporting Act: How it Functions for Consumers and the Economy", June 4, 2003, Proposed Amendments to the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act,
http://financialservices.house.gov/media/pdf/060403lb.pdf.

Practice is limited to the representation of consumers. Litigated cases throughout the country and am currently involved in cases throughout Virginia and in California, North Carolina, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Arizona. Litigated multiple class actions in South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and California.

www.myfaircredit.com

Apr 9, California Cyber Summet - Program by the Office of Privacy Protection

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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 International Association of Privacy Professionals' Government Working Group and a member of the Privacy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Before starting up the Office of Privacy Protection, McNabb had over 20 years experience in public affairs and marketing, in both the public and private sectors, including five years with an international marketing company in France. Her marketing background gives her an understanding of the commercial uses of personal information that have become a significant privacy concern.

McNabb attended Occidental College and holds a master's degree in Medieval Literature from the University of California, Davis.

www.privacy.ca.gov

Apr 4, Aissa Wayne, Esq. - Attorney, Author of John Wayne; My Father, Expert on issues of Celebrity Privacy and Celebrity Divorce

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Ms. Aissa Wayne has experienced first hand the issues of privacy and the lack thereof as the daughter of a celebrity, the late, great John Wayne. She also has keen insight into the issues of privacy in divorce and domestic violence not only as a Family law attorney, but also from her own prior experiences. In her book, her practice and in her professional speaking and writing she has shared the challenges of the lack of privacy for celebrities.

Prior to practicing family law, Ms. Wayne was a criminal prosecutor for the City of Los Angeles. As a prosecutor, she handled over 500 criminal cases and was the lead prosecutor in over 50 criminal and domestic violence jury trials in her capacity as a Deputy City Attorney for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office. Her substantial litigation experience and background places her in the top ranks of the family law field. As a result of her unique background, she brings an understanding of matters dealing with family law to her practice. She attributes her past and current successes to persistence, dedication and strong moral and spiritual conviction.

Ms. Wayne testified before the House of Representatives for the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office on domestic violence bills dealing with domestic violence and family law issues. She has also been a guest speaker and legal analyst on live television shows including CNN-Larry King Live and FOX News. She has also spoken for several reputable professional organizations.

Currently, Ms. Wayne is serving on the Auxiliary Board of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, California. Ms. Wayne is also a member of the Congressional Business Advisory Council in Washington D.C. Her publishing credits include the acclaimed Random House Publication book, "John Wayne, My Father," as a personal memoir to her father, the late actor John Wayne. She has also authored several articles including "Celebrity Divorce", recently published in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine.

Ms. Wayne attended the University of Southern California as an undergraduate. She was admitted to the California Bar in January 1995. Her memberships include Los Angeles and Orange County Bar Associations and Theta Phi Law Fraternity, International.

www.Waynelawgroup.com

Mar 26, Amit Yoran - CEO NetWitness, Former Director National Cyber Security for the Department of Homeland Security

Mar 26, Kevin Nixon - Director, Security Business Strategy & Product Marketing

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Amit Yoran

Amit Yoran led the management buyout of NetWitness from ManTech in 2006 and serves as the Chairman and CEO. Prior to NetWitness, he was appointed as Director of the National Cyber Security Division of Homeland Security, and as CEO and advisor to In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA. Formerly Mr Yoran served as the Vice President of Worldwide Managed Security Services at the Symantec Corporation. Mr. Yoran was the co-founder of Riptech, a market leading IT security company, and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Symantec in 2002. He served as an officer in the United States Air Force in the Department of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team.

www.netwitness.com

Kevin Nixon

Kevin Nixon has over 25 years experience in MIS design and development, Information Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery and US and European Regulatory Compliance. He joined Datacastle in January 2008 as the Director of Security Business Strategy & Product Marketing. Kevin was responsible for public policy review and compliance analysis. He educates corporate management and staff on pending and existing technology legislation relevant to client employees, customers, partners, and vendors. In his role, Kevin has testified before the Republican High Tech Task Force, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee & the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and several infrastructure security boards and committees including:

• Disaster Recovery Workgroup for the Office of Homeland Security (under Richard Clarke, Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace Security and Chairman of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board)
• Executive Board of the Internet Security Alliance (ISA)
• Chairman of the Best Practices Information Security Management Committee, ISA
• Executive Board Member of the Accredited Standards Committee, X9, Inc., the only industry-wide forum that brings together bankers, securities professionals, manufacturers, regulators, associations, consultants, and others in the financial services arena to address technical problems, find the best solutions, and codify them as nationally accepted standards.
• US TC68-SC2 & US TC68-SC6 Delegation Member to the International Standards Organization (ISO) on Financial Data Protection, Privacy and Security Standards
• Consultant to the Federal Trade Commission on the roll out of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA) on web security best practices for the AnnualCreditReport.com website
• Appeared as Cyber-terrorism Expert on CNBC’s Squawk Box with Mark Haines

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Mar 19, Rick D'Angona - Chief Security Officer - Experian

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Rick D'Angona is Chief Information Security Officer for Experian Americas. Rick has overall responsibility for information security strategies across Experian business units. He works to bridge the gap between the technical aspects of information security and executive management by providing guidance on best practice compliance controls as a way to support corporate objectives. He presents to Experian audiences around the United States and collaborates with the Experian UK team to continually improve the application of information security principles to the rapidly changing business environment. Rick was a featured speaker at the 5th World Consumer Credit Reporting Conference held in Capetown, South Africa in October, 2006. Rick joined Experian in January 2005 after serving as Vice President of Corporate Information Security at State Street Corporation where his responsibilities included governing the implementation of security controls for the world's largest custodian of mutual funds. Prior to joining State Street he was Director of Online Brokerage for Fidelity Investments, responsible for enhancing the electronic distribution channels to increase sales revenues and minimize costs. He was involved in all aspects of the process including targeted marketing campaigns, regulatory compliance and print/mail fulfillment. Rick has more than 25 years experience in information systems management, application development and design and is now meeting the significant challenge of providing security solutions for Experian.

www.experian.com

Mar 12, Kathyrn Montgomery - Professor, Privacy Expert, Author, Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet

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Kathryn Montgomery is a professor in the Public Communication division. She comes to American University with more than 25 years of experience in both the nonprofit field and academe. For 12 years, she was President of the DC-based Center for Media Education (CME), which she co-founded in 1991. During her tenure at CME, Montgomery's research, publications, and testimony helped frame the national public policy debate on a range of critical media issues. She led a coalition of child advocacy, health, and education groups in a series of successful advocacy campaigns, leaving behind a legacy of policies on behalf of children and families. They include: a Federal Communications Commission rule requiring a minimum of three hours per week of educational/informational television programming for children; a content-based ratings system for TV programs; and the first federal legislation to protect children's privacy on the Internet.

Before moving to Washington, DC, Montgomery was a media studies professor at California State University, Los Angeles, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Target: Prime Time - Advocacy Groups and the Struggle over Entertainment Television (Oxford University Press, 1989) - named "Outstanding Academic book of 1989-1990" by Choice Magazine. Montgomery currently directs the Project on Youth, Media, and Democracy through AU's Center for Social Media. The project's 2004 report, "Youth as E-Citizens," documented the variety of ways that young people are using the Internet for politics and civic engagement. Her most recent book is Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet, (The MIT Press, 2007). She received her Ph.D. in Motion Pictures and Television from UCLA.

In the News:
Americans are casual about their right to privacy--and online marketers are taking advantage of it, Professor Kathryn Montgomery tells National Public Radio host Liane Hansen. Listen to the interview. PC professor Kathryn Montgomery, author of the book Generation Digital, testified before the FTC regarding the vulnerability of children to digital marketing in today's age. Read what AdvertisingAge has to say about her, or listen to her commentary on NPR's Marketplace. Check out Montgomery's new blog.

Kathryn Montgomery co-authored "Food Advertising to Children in the New Digital Marketing Ecosystem," an article that will be published in the 2007 Yearbook, UNESCO Clearinghouse on Children, Youth & Media. She created a blog promoting her book, Generation Digital, on Free Press Action Network. Kathryn provided commentary on: Marketplace (radio), about threats to online privacy for teens using social networks; Corporations and Health Watch Project (online) about youth, digital media and marketing; and was interviewed and quoted (twice) in the New York Times, and in Boston Globe, CNET, CBC, Fox 5 News, Ad Week, as well as other publications and by regulators from the European Commission on the same topic. Additionally, Kathryn was invited to join the Editorial Board of a major new journal, The International Journal of Learning and Media supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Kathryn's Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth was launched online by MIT Press and at the MacArthur-sponsored forum in Cambridge on December 12 as a part of the MacArthur Foundation's initiative on digital media and learning, which is available both in paperback and online.

Recent Articles:
"Tracking of Web Use by Marketers Gains Favor", article, The New York Times

"Digital Marketers Are Watching the Kids", commentary, Marketplace, National Public Radio

"Do Consumers Care About Online Privacy?", article, AdvertisingAge

"F.T.C. Member Vows Tighter Controls of Online Ads", article, The New York Times

BLOG: http://freepress.net/actionnetwork/node/166
http://www.soc.american.edu/content.cfm?id=291

Mar 5, Tom - Tom Coughlin - Engineer and Technology Expert

Mar 5, Tom - JAY KRAMER - Network Storage and Data Protection Expert, VP Worldwide Marketing iStor Networks, Inc.

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Talking about the upcoming Data Protection Summit in Irvine California, March 11-13 2008.

Tom Coughlin

Tom is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates and Chairman of the 2007 Data Protection Summit. Tom has over 25 years of experience in the data storage industry as a working engineer and high level technical and corporate executive. For several years he has been collaborating with the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego on the sanitization of disk drive data. In addition to regular technical and market consulting projects he is the publisher of several reports covering technology and applications for digital storage devices and systems including storage components, capital spending, storage technology trends, a series on storage and digital entertainment and a series on system storage. He has 6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies. Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage Visions Conference (which celebrated its sixth year in 2007). Tom is a senior member and officer of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE, as well as a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS, and SMPTE. Websites:www.dataprotectionsummit.com or www.TomCoughlin.com

Jay Kramer

Jay brings to iStor over 20 years of sales and marketing executive management experience. He has been a world recognized technology consultant specializing in the network storage industry for both private and NASDAQ listed organizations along with providing consulting services to the leading network storage product companies. Prior to joining iStor Networks, Kramer was Chairman of the ILM Summit and Data Protection Summit which are leading sources of information on network storage. His background includes the emergence of Infinity I/O Inc. as a leading provider of storage network education, training, and certification. Jay has an extensive marketing management background having been VP of Marketing for Creative Design Solutions, Inc., an OEM provider of Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology, VP of Marketing for Maxtor/Seagate Corporation which acquired CDS and Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development for the Storage Systems Division of Unisys Corporation. In this position, Kramer directed their fibre channel and storage networking business initiatives.

Kramer has also served the network storage industry in a number of leadership positions over the last decade. He was previously elected to the Board of Directors of the Fibre Channel Industry Association for 7 years running and served as the first CFO for the organization. He continues to serve in an advisory position with leading technology conferences such as the Flash Memory Summit and Data Protection Summit. Jay has also been a featured speaker for many industry conferences including Storage Networking World and Storage World Conference.

Jay holds dual degrees in Marketing and Finance from The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.

Visit Jay's Website: www.istor.com

Feb 27, Jeffrey Chester - Director, The Center for Digital Democracy - Author, Digital Destiny

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Jeffrey Chester is the founder and executive director of The Center for Digital Democracy. He has been an important force in public-interest media issues for more than twenty years. His book, Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, will be published in January 2007 by The New Press. In 1992, he co-founded the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Center for Media Education (CME), along with Kathryn Montgomery, Ph.D. Jeff was a co-founder of the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable, and helped write its groundbreaking set of principles for the digital age in 1993. In 1995-1996, during the debate on the Telecommunications Act, he played a key role in fighting proposed deregulatory ownership measures for the broadcasting, newspaper, and cable industries. In 1996, Newsweek magazine named him one of the Internet's fifty most influential people. In 2000, Jeff created CME's project on open access and the future of the Internet, which he transferred to the Center for Digital Democracy upon the establishment of that organization in 2001. He is credited with helping to frame the debate and for uncovering key industry documents that helped expose the cable industry's plans for the Internet. During 2000 he co-led the effort, to impose conditions on the merger of AOL and Time Warner. In 2001, he was awarded a prestigious Public Interest Pioneer Grant from the Stern Family Fund. Under his leadership, CDD played a pivotal role fighting the plans of FCC Chairman Michael Powell, during 2001-3, to further sweep away media ownership safeguards. Jeff led the campaign during 2004-6 to expose how the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, under former Chair Kenneth Tomlinson, was engaged in a pressure campaign designed to weaken news and public affairs programming on PBS.

Prior to his media policy career, Jeff was a psychiatric social worker, investigative journalist, and a documentary filmmaker.

To learn more, visit www.democraticmedia.org .

Feb 20, James Rule - Author, Private Lives and Public Surveillance

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James Rule is a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. A former fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, he is the author of Private Lives and Public Surveillance and Privacy in Peril, and a winner of the C. Wright Mills Award. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Monthly, and New York Times Book Review.

Feb 13, Ari Schwartz - Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, Privacy Protection Expert

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Ari Schwartz is the Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Schwartz's work focuses on increasing individual control over personal and public information. He promotes privacy protections in the digital age and expanding access to government information via the Internet. He regularly testifies before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on these issues.

Schwartz also leads the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) , anti-spyware software companies, academics, and public interest groups dedicated to defeating spyware. In 2006, Schwartz won the RSA award for Excellence in Public Policy for his work building the ASC and other efforts against spyware. He was also named one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers of 2007 by Secure Computing Magazine.

www.cdt.org

Feb 6, Mz. Mugzzi- Author, Professional Medium, Victim of Cyber and Business Identity Theft

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Mz. Mugzzi, also known as Mugzzi or Sam, has been working successfully on the internet for over 9 years. She is an author, professional Medium and Radio Host. Most recently she has also been the victim of Cyber and Business Identity Theft. She will tell her horror story and what she had done to remedy the situation.

She started out working an hour a week on her first web site known as Live Advice. At the time she had been teaching part time at two community colleges in the disciplines of Business/Marketing and Computers. She was a faculty member for 7 and a half years. Although her passion was in teaching she had a calling to start operating as a psychic advisor on the internet.

Her popularity grew quickly and the need to teach full time waned to the growing number of callers that was looking for authentic, intelligent, medium readings and life coaching skills. As her callers began to line up back to back for insight, Mugzzi's confidence began to grow and the opportunity to start her own psychic website was born. She took the best of the best and added them to her psychic site known as Predict My Future.com. Gaining more exposure and creditability her career as a psychic medium continued to grow.

The opportunity to begin a radio show happened while she filled in for a friend, Robin Zodiac, on CRNi.net. As her call volume began to grow on the show she decided to start her own show which can be heard on Sunday mornings from 10:00am until 11:00am pacific time. She has recently been joined with a Co-Host, Mark Nelson, to help further promote the gifts of Mediumship readings.

In her spare time she is also assisting law enforcement on cold case files. This is providing an avenue for continued growth and to give back to society. She is also working with terminally ill patients to help them by providing intuitive health readings coupled with various health providers and also, in the event where needed, to help prepare them to cross over.

Currently, Mz. Mugzzi is now working on her book and being available as a radio guest and other opportunities as they arise. With all that going on Mugzzi still hopes to work with script writers in order to get her TV series produced and aired. More will come from this adventurous woman who is striving to bring creditability to the metaphysical industry. Mz. Mugzzi is not another card flipper.

To learn more visit http://www.mzmugzzi.com.

Jan 30, Harry Hammitt - Editor of Access Reports, Expert on Freedom of Information Act

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Harry Hammitt is editor/publisher of Access Reports, a biweekly newsletter on the Freedom of Information Act and open government laws and policies. He is the primary editor of Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).

He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1975. He holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. He has worked as an information specialist for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and for FOI Services, a third-party requesting company that deals primarily with businesses in the food and drug industry.

He became editor of Access Reports in 1985 and became publisher in 1989. He has written and lectured extensively on access and privacy issues in both the United States and Canada. He is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals and has conducted that organization's annual seminar on business information issues for more than ten years. He was inducted into the FOI Hall of Fame at the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Virginia, in 2001.

Please see www.accessreports.com

Jan 23, Even Hendricks - Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times

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Professional Activities

1981- Present Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times

Since 1981, I have been Editor/Publisher of Privacy Times, a biweekly, Washington-based newsletter that reports on privacy and information law, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The newsletter ranges from 8-12 pages, 23 issues per year. Thus, I have researched, written, edited and published many articles on Congressional and State legislative actions, judicial opinions, industry trends and actions, executive branch policies and consumer news as they related to the FCRA.

1992 - Present Expert Witness

Qualified by the federal courts in FCRA and identity theft cases. (Complete list attached). I have read extensive deposition testimony by credit bureau and credit grantor personnel. This is significant because CRAs and credit grantors do not openly discuss or publish information on their procedures and practices for handling personal data, and the best (and possibly only) sources for finding candid descriptions of CRAs' and credit grantors' procedures and practices in relation to credit reporting data are the depositions of CRA and credit grantor employees in FCRA litigation.

1998 - Present Privacy Expert Consultant, U.S. Social Security Administration

Regularly review policies and practices in relation to the collection, use and disclosure of personal data and Social Security numbers and provide feedback and recommendations.

2002 - 2004 Member, Experian Consumer Advisory Council

Along with other Council members, I provide an outsider's view on credit reporting, marketing and other privacy issues.

July - October 2002 Consultant to U.S. Postal Service

Working with the USPS's Chief Privacy Officer, I assisted in reviewing and editing the re-write of the USPS's Privacy Act notices, with an emphasis on "Plain English."

Recent Testimony Before Congress & The FTC

"Identity Theft: Recent Developments Involving the Security of Sensitive Consumer Information," Senate Banking Committee, March 15, 2005

"The Accuracy of Credit Report Information and the Fair Credit Reporting Act;" Senate Banking Committee, July 10, 2003

"The Role of FCRA in the Credit Granting Process," House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit, June 12, 2003

"Database Security: Finding Out When Your Information Has Been Compromised," Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information, Nov. 4, 2003

Fighting Fraud: Improving Information Security," House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions & Consumer Credit, and Oversight, April 3, 2003

"Information Flows: The Costs and Benefits to Consumers and Businesses of The Collection and Use of Consumer Information," Federal Trade Commission, National Workshop, June 18, 2003

Books

Credit Scores and Credit Reports: How The System Really Works, What You Can Do (Privacy Times, 2004)

Your Right To Privacy: A Basic Guide To Legal Rights In An Information Society (2nd Edition, Southern Illinois University Press, 1990), (Includes a chapter on credit reporting)

Former Secrets: Government Records Made Public Through The Freedom of Information Act (Campaign For Political Rights, 1982)

International Lectures

24th International Conference of Data Protection & Privacy Commissioners (Cardiff, Wales - Presentation published in conference proceedings, 2002)
The 23rd International Conference of Data Protection Commissioners (Paris, La Sorbonne - Presentation published in conference proceedings, 2001)
The 22nd Annual Conference on Data Protection (Venice, Italy -- 2000)
The 16th Annual Conference on Data Protection (The Hague, The Netherlands -- 1994).

In the 1980s, served as an expert consultant to both the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Privacy Commissioner of Australia.

Presentations/Instruction At Recent CLE & Professional Seminars

"The New FACT Act: Challenge & Opportunity," Privacy & American Business, Feb. 9-10, 2004
"Understanding the FACT Act And The Impact of Multi-Agency Rulewriting Process," Glasser LegalWorks, Sept. 28-29. 2004
"12th Annual National Conference," National Credit Reporting Association, Nov. 10-12, 2004
"Advanced Consumer Litigation," Texas Bar CLE, Feb. 10-11, 2005
"Financial Privacy Litigation," (Impact of FACT Act), Practicing Law Institute, February 28- March 1 (New York City)

Professional Societies

Past President and Board Member, American Society of Access Professionals
www.accesspro.org

Industry Certification

FCRA Certification, National Credit Reporting Association (www.ncrainc.org).

Media

In addition to being a paid consultant and special guest on CNN's IMPACT news in 1996, I am quoted regularly by major and small newspapers (including The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Money Magazine), regarding issues of privacy generally and the privacy implications of consumer reporting specifically. I have appeared on ABC Nightline and World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN News Watch, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, various local affiliates, and such shows as the Oprah Winfrey Show and Geraldo, regarding a wide range of privacy issues.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. (1979)

Evan Hendricks P.O. Box 302
Cabin John, MD 20818
(301) 229 7002
(301) 229 8011 [fax)
www.privacytimes.com

Jan 16, Dan Solve, Privacy Law Professor, Author of The Future of Reputation

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Professor Solove is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.

He received his A.B. in English Literature from Washington University, where he was an early selection for Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. from Yale Law School. At Yale, Professor Solove won the university-wide scholarly writing Field Prize and served as symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Following law school, Professor Solove clerked for The Honorable Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. After practicing law as an associate at the firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., Professor Solove began a second clerkship with The Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professor Solove began teaching at Seton Hall Law School in 2000. In the fall semester of 2003, he was a visiting professor at the George Washington University Law School. He permanently joined the George Washington University Law School faculty in 2004.

Professor Solove writes in the areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature, jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory.

He teaches information privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature.

An internationally known expert in privacy law, Solove has been interviewed and quoted by the media in over 100 articles and broadcasts, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Associated Press, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Professor Solove recently published a new book, THE DIGITAL PERSON: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE (NYU Press, December 2004), which distinguished Berkeley Law School Professor Pamela Samuelson calls "the best exposition thus far about the threat that computer databases containing personal data about millions of Americans poses for information privacy." The book was recommended in the Wall Street Journal's Recommended Reading column in July 2005.

Additionally, Solove also authored a casebook, INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW (Aspen, January 2003) (with Marc Rotenberg).

Solove has published about 20 articles and essays, which have appeared or are forthcoming in many of the leading law reviews, including the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, and Southern California Law Review, among others.

He serves on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is the president of the Law and Humanities Institute. He has contributed to several amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Daniel J. Solove
Associate Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
2000 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
(202) 994-9514

Website: http://www.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/

Jan 09, Tom Preston, MD - Author and Expert on Privacy and Dignity in Dying

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Thomas A Preston, M.D., graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and was for more than 20 years a professor of medicine (cardiology) at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous medical articles, and his articles for the public media have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others. His appearances on national television programs include Good Morning America, Sixty Minutes, and the McNeil-Lehrer Show. He was a plaintiff in Washington v. Glucksberg, U. S. Supreme Court, 1997. Patient-Directed Dying is his fourth book. In his new book, Dr. Preston gives compelling reasons why aid in dying is not suicide when used by terminally ill patients, and why physicians who help them die are not assisting suicide. He shows how outdated cultural attitudes impede understanding of how we die, why many physicians withdraw from their dying patients, and how the sanctity-of-life principle has become distorted to obstruct aid in dying.

Patient-Directed Dying is a manifesto calling for mercy and reason to learn more visit

http://www.tomprestonmd.com/

Jan 02, Tim Divine - Attorney and Privacy Expert

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Mr. Devine joined the firm of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn in March 2007 and is a Partner in the Litigation Department. He represents a variety of clients in state and federal court litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Tim also advises clients on record retention and information management issues, including the challenges posed by recent developments in e-Discovery.

Prior to joining the Firm, Tim served as Managing Counsel in Ford Motor Company's Office of General Counsel. Tim's practice at Ford included significant litigation and client counseling responsibilities. Most recently, he led Ford's response to discovery in government inquiries and class actions. He has handled a variety of litigation, including product liability and class actions and provided legal counsel to Ford's Human Resources Department. Tim launched Ford's Privacy Office and counseled its e-commerce business portfolio, including numerous websites and new ventures. He directed legal and regulatory investigations of major industrial accidents, including complex electronic and physical evidence preservation in industrial settings.

Tim received his B.A. in Government from Harvard University in 1985, his M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1990, and his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995.

Tim lives with his wife Julie and their children in Farmington Hills. He is a longtime participant in programs to provide legal pro bono legal services for indigent clients and is a member of the board of Metropolitan Detroit YMCA Camping Services.

www.honigman.com