Privacy Piracy

Mari Frank Interviews Kenneth Cukier, 04/15/13

Mari Frank Interviews Jayne Hitchcock, 03/25/13

Mari Frank Interviews Deborah Peel, 03/11/13

Mari Frank Interviews Rebecca Herold, 02/04/13

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Ellis Smith 01/14/13

Mari Frank Interviews Bob Baier 12/31/12

Mari Frank Interviews Joe Mason 12/17/12

Mari Frank Interviews Patrick Florer and Heather...

Mari Frank interviews Mark Schwanhausser, 10/15/12

Mari Frank interviews Stephen Echols, Victim of Criminal...

Mari Frank Interviews Chris Boudreaux, Global Social...

Chris Boudreaux leads global development of CRM and social business offerings for Accenture clients. He also serves as Global Social Media Architect to Accenture’s Fortune 100 clients across industries. In prior work, he led business transformation programs at Fortune 100 companies, including Boeing and Bank of America. In addition, he created and led the Strategy and Measurement practice at the social media agency Converseon, where he served brands including IBM, Ford, Univision and...

Mari Frank Interviews Gene Healy, Vice President at the...

Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute. His research interests include executive power and the role of the presidency, as well as federalism and overcriminalization. He is the author of 2008's The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, and the editor of the 2004 collection Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything. Healy has appeared on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's Talk of the Nation, and his writing has been...

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Ellis Smith, Journalist and...

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. 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...

Mari Frank Interviews Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Founder...

Before coming to McAfee, Michelle Finneran Dennedy founded The iDennedy Project, a consulting and advisory company specializing in privacy and security sensitive organizations. Michelle is also a founder and editor in chief of a new media site—TheIdentityProject.com—that was started as an advocacy and education site, currently focused on the growing crime of Child ID theft. Michelle was the Vice President for Security & Privacy Solutions for the Oracle Corporation. This team worked closely...

Mari Frank Interviews Susan Grant, Director of Consumer...

Susan Grant is Director of Consumer Protection at the Consumer Federation of America, a nonprofit association of some 300 nonprofit consumer groups that was established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education, and advocacy Ms. Grant works specifically in the areas of privacy, deceptive marketing, online safety and security, fraud, electronic and mobile commerce, and general consumer protection issues. She coordinates CFA’s Fake Check Task Force, conducts CFA’s...

Mari Frank Interviews Christopher Wolf, Director of...

Christopher Wolf is a director of Hogan Lovells' Privacy and Information Management practice group. Chris is widely recognized as one of the leading American practitioners in the field of privacy and data security law. Chris has deep experience in the entire range of international, federal, and state privacy and data security laws, including financial and health information privacy laws, as well as the many sectoral and geographic regulations, such as the EU Directive and the new state data...

Mari Frank Interviews Elizabeth Henderson, Orange County...

Elizabeth Henderson is the Assistant District Attorney who has been supervising the Major Fraud Unit, the Real Estate Fraud Unit and the High Tech Crime Unit since March 2004. She has been a member of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office since 1988 and has prosecuted a wide variety of cases including homicides, major frauds, gang crimes and a variety of felony cases. She is recognized as a strong advocate for the victims of white collar crime and a leading force in developing...

Mari Frank Interviews Mike "Duck" Proctor, Leading...

Mike "Duck" Proctor has become one of the nation's leading experts on stalking. The first U.S. crime study on stalking estimated that one in 12 women and one in 45 men are stalked sometime in their life. To help combat that, as well as assist not only those who are stalked, but those that investigate them; he wrote “How to Stop a Stalker,” along with articles for the California Journal of Law Enforcement and other professional publications. Prior to becoming a detective Mike was a substitute...

Mari Frank Interviews Alexandra Natapoff, a...

Alexandra Natapoff is an award-winning legal scholar and a nationally-recognized expert on criminal informants. She is Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, a graduate of Yale and Stanford, and a member of the American Law Institute. Although it is nearly invisible to the public, criminal snitching has invaded the American legal system in risky and sometimes shocking ways. Snitching is the first comprehensive analysis of this powerful and problematic practice, in which...

Mari Frank Interviews Hassan Elahi, The Visible Man

The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list — and once you're on, it's hard to get off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he's doing. Indeed, his server logs show hits from the Pentagon, the Secretary of Defense, and the Executive Office of the President, among others. The globe-hopping prof says his overexposed...

Mari Frank Interviews Keith G. Bremer, Civil Litigation...

Keith G. Bremer has experience in all aspects of civil litigation and has had the privilege of representing auto manufacturers, auto dealerships, contractors and business owners in trial. Mr. Bremer has been a featured contributor in the Orange County Register, Business Section and has been editorialized in, among others, Newsweek, Forbes, AOL, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily Journal, CBS, NBC, Fox, KCAL and KTLA news. He recently consulted and appeared on ABC's 20/20 and The CBS...

Mari Frank Interviews David Bender, Attorney and...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Barry Nadell, Industry Expert on...

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. 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...

Mari Frank Interviews V. James DeSimone, Attorney...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews J. J. (Jack) Luna, International...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews J. Trevor Hughes, President and...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Samuel Jeff Carter, Chief Strategy...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Malcolm Crompton, Managing...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Debbie Laskey, Social Media...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Rebecca Herold, The Privacy...

Rebecca Herold, “The Privacy Professor,” is a leading information security, privacy, compliance and training expert with over two decades of experience. Rebecca is currently listed among Computerworld’s top three Best Privacy Advisors in the world, a Top Influencer in IT Security by IT Security magazine, and numerous other awards and recognitions. The proprietary security training exercise Rebecca created has won a CSI Information Security Program of the Year. Rebecca also has been an...

Mari Frank Interviews Martha Bellinger, Retired...

Martha Bellinger served on the Los Angeles Superior Court as both a commissioner and judge for over 20 years. During that time she served in the dependency courts, delinquency courts, adult criminal proceedings, and four years in the family law courts in Pomona. She retired July 31, 2011 as supervising judge of the East District delinquency courts. During her four years in the family law courts of Pomona, she authored over 292 decisions on submitted matters, and was known for her calm and...

Mari Frank Interviews Beth Givens, Founder and Director...

Beth Givens is founder and director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, established in 1992. Givens represents the interests of consumers in public policy proceedings at the state and federal levels (California Legislature, U.S. Congress, and federal and state regulatory agencies). She has been interviewed by the media on consumer privacy issues, including: major U.S. newspapers, online media, radio news and talk programs including NPR, and on broadcast and cable TV: The Willis Report,...

Mari Frank Interviews Stephen Rohde, Attorney, Writer...

Stephen Rohde is an attorney, writer and lecturer in Los Angeles, specializing in constitutional and intellectual property law, including First Amendment, entertainment, copyright, trademark, book publishing, defamation, invasion of privacy and right of publicity disputes. A graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia Law School, Mr. Rohde has written and lectured widely on freedom of expression, intellectual property, censorship, media regulation, hate speech, pornography, and the...

Mari Frank Interviews Shaun Dakin, Social Media Expert

Shaun Dakin is a social media expert who specializes in brand building, management and marketing, and issues surrounding public/ private information. He started a non-profit, The National Political Do Not Contact Registry, in 2007 to fight for voter’s privacy rights and to fight against those evil political robocalls. In the space of a year he took the organization from a start up to over 200,000 members and he became the spokesperson for voter privacy throughout the nation. During that time...

Mari Frank Interviews Susan Grant, Director of Consumer...

Susan Grant is Director of Consumer Protection at the Consumer Federation of America. The CFA is a nonprofit association of some 300 nonprofit consumer groups that was established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education, and advocacy Ms. Grant works specifically in the areas of privacy, deceptive marketing, online safety and security, fraud, electronic and mobile commerce, and general consumer protection issues. She coordinates CFA’s Fake Check Task Force,...

Mari Frank Interviews Kevin Mitnick, the World's Most...

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous (former) computer hacker, has been the subject of countless news and magazine articles, the idol of thousands of would-be hackers, and a one-time "most wanted" criminal of cyberspace, on the run from the bewildered Feds. Now a security consultant, he has spoken to audiences at conventions around the world, been on dozens of major national TV and radio shows, and even testified in front of Congress. He is the author of The Art of Deception and The Art of...

Mari Frank Interviews Lisa Sotto, Privacy and Data...

Lisa J. Sotto, Managing Partner of the New York office of Hunton & Williams LLP, heads the firm’s top-ranked Privacy and Data Security practice. She was voted the world’s leading privacy advisor in Computerworld’s three most recent annual surveys and was ranked in “Band 1” by Chambers USA for Privacy & Data Security. Ms. Sotto also was recognized as a leading lawyer in the 2011 edition of The Legal 500 United States, and she was named one of Ethisphere Magazine’s 100 “2009 Attorneys Who...

Mari Frank Interviews James Fishman, Nationally...

James Fishman is a nationally known consumer rights and privacy advocate who has brought numerous groundbreaking cases under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Truth in Lending Act and the New York Deceptive Practices Act. A former Assistant Attorney General in the Bureau of Consumer Frauds and Protection under Robert Abrams, Mr. Fishman has over 24 years of experience fighting for the rights of consumers in both state and federal courts. Mr. Fishman...

Mari Frank Interviews Sylvia Goldsmith, a Leading...

Sylvia Antalis Goldsmith’s practice focuses on consumer protection primarily involving civil litigation under a variety of state and federal laws including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Truth in Lending Act, and the Ohio Consumer Sales Practices Act. She is licensed to practice law in all courts in the State of Ohio, as well as in the federal courts of the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, the Eastern District of Texas, the United States...

Mari Frank Interviews Brian Kennish, Founder of...

Brian Kennish is the founder of disconnect.me, a technology startup that helps people understand the data they share online and makes simple tools for users to control their data. Disconnect’s first product, a browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, stops the webpages users go to and searches they do from being tracked. The company’s latest release is a crowdsourced project to turn the privacy policies of the most popular websites into a small set of icons. Before founding...

Mari Frank Interviews Allan Pratt, Technology Expert...

Allan Pratt is a technology expert with an emphasis on networking and information security and has earned several CompTIA certifications in hardware, software, networking, and security. With an MBA Degree, marketing experience, and managerial experience combined with his IT certifications, Allan has the communication and technology skills to effectively communicate with users, tech staff members, and C-level executives – and is understood by all. As a marketing professional for 10 years, he...

Mari Frank Interviews John Shepardson, Attorney in Los...

John Shepardson has been practicing law for over 24 years in Los Gatos, California and has represented policyholders in lawsuits against insurance companies for almost his entire career. The primary areas of his practice are insurance bad faith, personal injury, accidents, business and real estate matters. Attorney Shepardson was President of the Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association for the 2007-2008 term, and also served on the Board of Directors. In 2008, he also served on the...

Mari Frank Interviews Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.Information...

Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the leading privacy experts in the world. Noted for her seminal work on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in 1995, her concept of Privacy by Design seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technology and accountable business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In October, 2010, regulators from around the world gathered at the annual assembly of International Data Protection and...

Mari Frank Interviews Maurice Mo Murray, Counselor and...

At age 72 Mo Murray is retired and lives with [and thanks to, the benevolence of] his 12 year old blind cat Jackson in a high rise apartment building overlooking historic Downtown Charleston South Carolina / Charleston Harbor and Fort Sumter. Much like Fort Sumter Mo too was bombarded during the prime of his life; but not by Napoleonic Canon but rather by Alcohol Mo too surrendered and always introduces himself as A grateful recovering Alcoholic. During his recovery Mo served as a Counselor...

Mari Frank Interviews Lewis Maltby, a Major Figure in...

Lew Maltby has been a major figure in American privacy for over 20 years. He's testified before Congress, appeared on 60 Minutes and Larry King Live, participated in litigation before the Supreme Court, and been interviewed by every paper from the Wall Street Journal to Mother Jones. He's a faculty member of the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, and has guest lectured at Penn, Vanderbilt, NYU, and Cornell. His book, Can They do That? Reclaiming our Fundamental Rights at Work...

Mari Frank Interviews Lisa Nelson, Assistant Professor...

Dr. Nelson holds a PhD and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and specializes in the field of science, technology, and society. She has recently finished serving as a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to explore the societal perceptions of biometric technology in collaboration with Bojan Cukic, PhD (WVU); Stephanie Schuckers, PhD (Clarkson); Michael Schuckers, PhD (St. Lawrence University); Anil Jain, PhD (Michigan State); and Larry Hornack, PhD...

Mari Frank Interviews Ken Rosenfeld, Sacramento Criminal...

Sacramento criminal defense lawyer Ken Rosenfeld has over 100 criminal defense trials to his credit. As a California criminal defense lawyer Mr. Rosenfeld has successfully and aggressively defended cases ranging from first-degree murder to driving under the influence (DUI defense ), and he has developed a specialty in the defense of all sex offenses. Mr. Rosenfeld’s Sacramento criminal defense law firm has successfully defended high-profile media cases and Mr. Rosenfeld has personally made...

Mari Frank Interviews Lee Tien, Sr. Staff Attorney with...

Lee Tien is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in free speech and privacy law. Before joining EFF in 2000, Lee was a sole practitioner specializing in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. Mr. Tien has published articles on children's sexuality and information technology, anonymity, surveillance, the First Amendment status of publishing computer software, and state secrets litigation. Lee received his undergraduate degree in psychology from...

Mari Frank Interviews Frank M. Ahearn, a Privacy...

Frank M. Ahearn is a privacy consultant who works with people who need to disappear. His clients range from victims of stalkers, celebrities seeking privacy, business travelers avoiding abductions and other who find digital information all too intrusive. Frank started his career as skip tracer (finds people) and social engineer who obtained information for investigators, lawyers and tabloids. He has worked cases involving Monica Lewinsky, George Clooney, Conrad Black and the Oscars to name a...

Mari Frank Interviews Ben Leichtling, Author of �Bullies...

Ben Leichtling, Ph.D., has studied how to stop bullies since his childhood on the mean streets of New York City. He has six adult children, thirteen grandchildren and lives in Denver, home of Columbine High School. After a 23 year career as a research scientist, he became a practical, down-to-earth coach and consultant to help people create bully-free lives in the real world full of bullies. He is a nationally syndicated columnist and over 300 of his articles have appeared in business, trade...

Mari Frank interviews Frederick S. Lane, Author,...

Frederick S. Lane is an author, attorney, expert witness, and professional speaker on the legal and cultural implications of emerging technology. He graduated in 1985 from Amherst College with a B.A. in American Studies and Classics, and in 1988 from Boston College Law School. Following law school, Lane clerked for two years for the Honorable Frank H. Freedman, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. He moved to Burlington, VT in October 1990, where he worked in private...

Mari Frank Interviews Jeremy Gruber, President of the...

Jeremy Gruber is the President of the Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG). Since 1983, CRG has represented the public interest and fostered public debate regarding the social, ethical and environmental implications of emerging genetic technologies. CRG is the only biotech public interest organization that is explicitly dedicated to examining the best science, interpreting the results, assessing the implications, communicating them to a general audience and facilitating meaningful,...

Mari Frank Interviews Frank Campbell, Founder and Chief...

Frank A. S. Campbell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Highland Strategies, LLC, a firm providing strategic consulting services relating to the use of information in connection with new technologies to enhance public safety and homeland security. Frank's 30-year professional career covers a broad range of public policy and legal experience, including 14 years in federal law enforcement and national security agencies and 14 years in private law practice. Frank served for nearly a...

Mari Frank Interviews Conrad del Rosario, Prosecutor of...

Conrad Del Rosario graduated law school in 1991 and has been a prosecutor for 17 years. While in San Francisco, he has been assigned to several units including domestic violence, sexual assault, and narcotics. For the last 5 years, he has been exclusively prosecuting high technology crimes, which includes assisting law enforcement with the investigation all the way to presenting the case to a jury. These are crimes where high technology is either the target of the crime or the means used to...

Mari Frank Interviews Senator Joe Simitian, Committee...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Carolyn Gross, Award Winning...

Carolyn Gross is a cancer thriver, an award-winning international speaker, facilitator, wellness expert, and holistic health coach. For more than two decades, she has facilitated wellness retreats at top rated spas and worked as a CranioSacral therapist. She is Past President of the National Speakers Association in San Diego and the author of two books, Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos: How to Keep Positive in an Unsettled World and Treatable and Beatable: Healing Cancer without Surgery....

Mari Frank Interviews Aaron Kahn, Litigator Specializing...

Aaron Kahn is a litigator specializing in commercial litigation, trust and probate litigation, and white-collar internal investigations and defense. He has represented clients in both state and federal court, as well as in multi-million dollar arbitrations in connection with disputes involving personal and business torts, contract law, commercial fraud, unfair competition/false advertising law, trust & probate law, and constitutional law. His clients have included individuals, small...

Mari Frank Interviews Betsy Broder, a veteran FTC...

A veteran FTC attorney, Betsy Broder has been involved in some of the agency’s most cutting edge work. As both a litigator and manager, she investigated, led and supervised cases involving telemarketing, business opportunity, and online pyramid scams. She launched the FTC’s ID theft program and coordinated the FTC’s participation in the President’s Identity Theft Task Force. Betsy has testified before Congress and state legislatures and is frequently sought by the media as a consumer...

Mari Frank Interviews Liisa Thomas, an Attorney Who...

Liisa Thomas has developed a unique advertising practice, providing privacy law counseling to major consumer brands, advertising agencies, and consumer research companies, among others. Ms. Thomas joined Winston & Strawn in 2005 as a partner, bringing to the advertising law group her extensive experience in privacy, trademark, and youth marketing laws. Ms. Thomas has been a frequent and popular author on the subject of advertising and privacy laws, and is an adjunct professor in The John...

Mari Frank Interviews Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown, licensed...

Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown is a licensed clinical psychologist. Her orientation is integrative and she embraces a multicultural perspective in her psychotherapeutic practice. She is also a core faculty member and the director of practicum for a doctoral program in psychology (www.antiochsb.edu). Juliet has worked with brain injured individuals and in psychiatric inpatient settings as well as in community counseling environments and private practice. She is committed to respecting that while...

Mari Frank Interviews Eric Drew, identity theft victim...

Eric Drew is a nationally recognized identity theft victim and expert, cancer survivor, motivational keynote speaker, and Chairman of a Medical foundation. He has been featured on many TV and radio shows including, CNN, NPR, Montel Williams, Dateline NBC, Geraldo, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsche, ABC CBC andFOX news. His story was also featured in Discover Magazine. His miraculous survival from terminal leukemia as well as being the first to catch and prosecute an identity thief under the...

Mari Frank Interviews Steve Posner, author of the legal...

Steve C. Posner is the author of the annually updated legal treatise Privacy Law and the USA Patriot Act (LexisNexis/Matthew Bender 2006, now going into its fifth edition), emphasizing the practical implications, burdens and options for organizations and individuals cooperating with and subject to government evolving reporting requirements, information requests and surveillance. Mr. Posner frequently speaks on privacy and national security law to professional and community groups, as well as...

Mari Frank Interviews Mark Camillo, Vice President,...

Mark Camillo is Vice President in the Executive Liability Professional Liability Division of Chartis and is responsible for the Technology and Security/Privacy suite of products. Prior to this role, Mark was responsible for the Personal Identity Coverage (PIC) and Payment Fraud Products. Mark joined Chartis in 2001 and has held positions of increasing management responsibility in various parts of the organization including eBusiness Risk Solutions, Affinity Group, A&H, Professional...

Mari Frank Interviews David Brin, Scientist, Inventor...

David Brin, Scientist, Inventor and NY Times Bestselling Author David Brin is a scientist, inventor and NY Times bestselling author. With books translated into twenty-five languages, he has won multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. A film directed by Kevin Costner was based on David's novel The Postman. Other works have been optioned by Paramount and Warner Bros. One of them - "Kiln People" - has been called a book of ideas disguised as a fast-moving and fun noir detective story, set in a...

Mari Frank Interviews David L. Roberts, Ph.D., a...

David L. Roberts, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist with an M.S. in General Psychology, an M.S. in Administration, and a B.A. in Literature with a minor in music. His varied educational background and work experiences as a psychologist, businessman and entrepreneur, writer, musician, and college professor give Dr. Roberts a very unique combination of both knowledge and professional diversity. Dr. Roberts’ two books At the Mercy of Externals, and Psycho-Soul-ology - provide a tried and...

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Rebhan, Financial Crimes...

ROBERT J. REBHAN FINANCIAL CRIMES EXPERT is a nationally renowned expert and speaker on identity theft and financial crimes, and a former Detective Sergeant with the Los Angeles Police Department. During his exciting career with the LAPD, he served in many high profile assignments including the SWAT Team, Hollywood's Narcotics, Robbery, Homicide, and Vice Squads. As a detective, he was a master of disguise and during his 22 years of service he was personally involved in the arrest of...

Mari Frank Interviews Kirk Moore, Co-Minister and Music...

Rev. Kirk Moore is the co-minister and Music Director at the Center for Spiritual Living Orange County established in May 1999. Kirk is a native Californian, born and raised in Redondo Beach, California. Kirk and his wife Sandy, the founding minister, raised their two daughters in L.A. County and Orange County. Tragically, their older daughter, Tara, was killed in an automobile accident in 1992 at the age of fifteen. Kirk has studied piano and music since the age of four and was quite...

Mari Frank Interviews Linda and Jay Foley, Directors of...

Jay Foley is the co-founder/director of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nationwide, nonprofit identity theft program located in San Diego, California. The ITRC was established in 1999 in response to the growing need for victim assistance and public empowerment caused by the explosive rise in identity theft crime rate. As the spouse of an identity theft victim, Foley understands the practical and emotional complexities of this crime. Since 1999, he has assisted thousands of victims via...

Mari Frank Interviews Wendy Patrick, Deputy District...

Wendy Patrick is a San Diego County Deputy District Attorney, named by her peers as one of the Top Ten criminal attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript. Most of her practice is trial work; she has completed approximately 142 trials including close to 100 criminal jury trials ranging from hate crimes, to torture, to first-degree murder. In her current assignment in the Sex Crimes and Stalking Division she prosecutes cases involving vice, child molestation, and sexually...

Mari Frank Interviews Chris Hoofnagle, Senior Staff...

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. From 2000 to 2006, he was senior counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and director of the organization's West Coast office. At EPIC, he concentrated on financial services privacy, telemarketing regulation and consumer profiling. He was also a non-residential fellow with...

Mari Frank Interviews Exhibitors at the 2010 Privacy...

In April, more than 1,700 privacy professionals gathered in Washington, DC for the largest-ever Global Privacy Summit. The Summit was a sold-out event featuring 170 speakers and more than 70 sessions on the most cutting-edge topics facing the privacy community today. We also heard thought-provoking keynotes from Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist and author of New York Times bestseller, Predictably Irrational, Microsoft’s Scott Charney and Victor Mayer-Schonberger, author of Delete: The...

Mari Frank Interviews Deanna Collins, Author and TV Host

As a paraplegic since birth, from a hemorrhage in her spine which left her paralyzed from the chest down, Deanna Collins has spent the past 35+ years researching resources, volunteering with prominent organizations in her community, educating, advocating for living independently and living life to it’s fullest; all in preparation for her current project of Ultimate Access with Deanna Collins. Deanna Collins as creator, co-producer and host of Ultimate Access with Deanna Collins aims to...

Mari Frank Interviews Charles Doskow, Dean Emeritus and...

Charles S. Doskow is Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law in Ontario. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Harvard Law School, he was in private practice in Upland for many years, after serving as counsel for Dart Industries, Inc. in Los Angeles, and for Lewis Homes, in Upland. He served as Dean of the College of Law from 1980 to 1985, and presently teaches Constitutional Law and Professional Responsibility at La Verne. Professor Doskow is...

Mari Frank Interviews Mark Waldman, Author, Researcher,...

Mark Robert Waldman is a therapist and an Associate Fellow at the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania (http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/radiology/research/labs/csm/), where he currently conducts research with Andrew Newberg, MD, on the neurological correlates of beliefs, morality, compassion, meditation, religious experiences, and spiritual practices. He is adjunct faculty at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, where he is developing communication tools for the...

Mari Frank Interviews Major David Wilson, Attorney, U.S....

Major David Willson has spent the last 20 years serving his country as an active duty attorney in the U.S. Army. David Willson is originally from Glen Cove, New York. He received his BA in Criminal Justice from C.W. Post College on Long Island. He received an Army ROTC scholarship while attending Hofstra University ROTC. Upon graduation he was selected for the Military Police Corps and also received an educational delay to attend law school. He graduated from The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law...

Mari Frank Interviews Senator Joe Simitian, California...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews James Grimmelmann, Attorney and...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Ellis Smith, Journalist and...

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,...

Mari Frank Interviews Helen Nissenbaum, Author and NYU...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews 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.

Mari Frank Interviews Rebecca Herold, The Privacy...

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....

Mari Frank Interviews Michael Turner, President and...

Dr. Turner currently serves as President and Senior Scholar of PERC, which he founded. He is a prominent expert on credit access, credit reporting and scoring, information policy, and economic development. He has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures, and presented studies to a host of government agencies including the FTC, the FCC, and the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Council of Economic Advisors, and the White House. Dr. Turner was appointed to the...

Mari Frank Interviews Joanne McNabb, Chief of the Office...

Joanne McNabb is Chief of the California Office of Privacy Protection. Created by legislation and opened 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 a Certified Information Privacy Professional and is co-chair of the International Association of Privacy...

Mari Frank Interviews Anthony Oncidi, Labor and...

Anthony J. Oncidi is a partner in the Firm and the Chair of the Labor and Employment Department in the Los Angeles office. Tony represents employers and management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including litigation and preventive counseling, wage and hour matters, including class actions, wrongful termination, employee discipline, Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, executive employment contract disputes, sexual harassment training and...

Mari Frank Interviews Kirk Nahra, Healthcare Privacy...

Kirk J. Nahra is a partner with Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in healthcare, privacy, information security and overall compliance litigation and counseling for the health care and property/casualty insurance industries and others in the financial services industry and elsewhere facing compliance obligations in these areas. He is chair of the firm’s Privacy Practice and co-chair of its Health Care Practice. He works with insurers and health care industry...

Mari Frank Interviews Susan Grant, Director of Consumer...

Susan Grant is Director of Consumer Protection at Consumer Federation of America, a nonprofit association of some 300 non-profit consumer groups that was established in 1968 to advance the consumer interest through research, education, and advocacy at both national and state levels. Ms. Grant works specifically in the areas of privacy, deceptive marketing, online safety and security, fraud, electronic and mobile commerce, and general consumer protection issues. She coordinates CFA's Fake...

Mari Frank interviews Tina Stow, Senior Director of...

Oct 21, Tina Stow - Senior Director of Privacy and Communications for LexisNexis Tina Stow is Senior Director of Privacy and Communications for LexisNexis, a leading global provider of business information solutions to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. Within this capacity, she reports to the Senior Vice President for Privacy, Security, Compliance and Government Affairs and is responsible for...

Mari Frank Interviews Paul Fogel, Noted Appellate...

Paul’s practice focuses on appeals, writs, post‐trial motions, and law and motion matters in a broad range of civil law areas, including unfair competition, health care, trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, defamation, products liability, taxation, contracts, public entity law, premises liability, employment, professional negligence, higher education and constitutional law. He has handled more than 350 appellate matters (resulting in some 60 published opinions), including...

Mari Frank Interviews Jeff Dion, Director of the...

Jeff Dion has championed crime victims' rights for more than two decades. Jeff began advocating for victims in 1982, when his twenty-three year old sister, Paulette, was murdered by a serial killer. Only 14 years old himself, Jeff pressed the police for information on his sister's case and, after it was solved, decided to pursue a career in law to help other crime victims. In honor of his sister's memory, Jeff lobbied the Virginia General Assembly, resulting in 13 victims' rights bills being...

Mari Frank Interviews Larry Ponemon, Chairman and...

Dr. Larry Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research "think tank" dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy auditing and the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to...

Mari Frank Interviews Lee Tien, Senior Staff Attorney...

Lee Tien is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in free speech law, including intersections with intellectual property law and privacy law. Before joining EFF, Lee was a sole practitioner specializing in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. Mr. Tien has published articles on children's sexuality and information technology, anonymity, surveillance, and the First Amendment status of publishing computer software. Lee received his undergraduate...

Mari Frank Interviews Lothar Determann, Attorney...

DR. LOTHAR DETERMANN practices and teaches international technology law. As a partner with Baker & McKenzie LLP in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California, focusing on technology and international business law, his practice covers counseling technology companies on taking their R&D, products and contracts international, as well as software licensing, electronic commerce, data protection, intellectual property and outsourcing. Dr. Determann is admitted to practice in Germany and California...

Mari Frank Interviews Participants of the International...

International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers Annual Conference in Chicago The IAHL membership has a unique and diverse character as the journey to finding more joy, satisfaction and meaning in life has many different paths. In this organization you will find lawyers who are also therapists, healers, musicians, jugglers, and parents. You will find members who are exploring different ways of practicing law, who are learning how to deal with the stress of the legal profession, who are becoming...

Mari Frank Interviews Jay and Linda Foley, Founders of...

Jay Foley Jay Foley is the co-founder/director of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nationwide, nonprofit identity theft program located in San Diego, California. The ITRC was established in 1999 in response to the growing need for victim assistance and public empowerment caused by the explosive rise in identity theft crime rate. As the spouse of an identity theft victim, Foley understands the practical and emotional complexities of this crime. Since 1999, he has assisted thousands of...

Mari Frank Interviews Laura Innes, Employment Law...

Laura Innes, a director of Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi, PC, has been engaged exclusively in the practice of labor and employment law for 23 years. Her practice combines preventive counseling for management with civil and administrative litigation defense. Recognized by Martindale Hubbell as an “AV” rated practitioner, Ms. Innes regularly publishes articles on a wide range of employment law topics and is a frequent speaker to client and community groups. Ms. Innes has been named a...

Mari Frank Interviews Nuala O'Connor Kelly, GE Senior...

Nuala was named senior counsel, information governance and privacy in 2008 and joined GE as chief privacy leader in 2005. In her current role, Nuala co-leads GE's Information Governance Council, which is responsible for the development and implementation of the Company's policies and practices across the data life cycle, including creation, protection and disposal. As privacy lead, Nuala also facilitates the team of business privacy leaders and the Information Governance and Privacy practice...

Mari Frank Interviews Robert Siciliano, Expert on...

Robert Siciliano is an expert on personal security and identity theft. With 25 years of experience in self-defense, security work, martial arts, white collar crimes and observing the human condition. Mr. Siciliano has been researching and keeping in tune with all aspects of security by staying on top of what is new and ahead of what is next at all times as the CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com . An American television news correspondent, security analyst, Certified Identity Theft Risk Management...

Mari Frank Interviews Senator Joe Simitian, California...

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...

Mari Frank Interviews Bob Brennan, Attorney and Author

Attorney Robert Brennan grew up steeped in the legal tradition: his uncle was former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (deceased), and his father, Frank Brennan, was chief in-house counsel for several major U.S. corporations during his long career. Robert Brennan began his career in civil litigation in 1988, and opened his own general practice firm, The Law Offices of Robert F. Brennan in 1991 (www.brennanlaw.com).The firm specializes in litigating cases related to...

Mari Frank Interviews Peggy Eisenhauer, Founder of...

Margaret P. (“Peggy”) Eisenhauer is the founder of Privacy & Information Management Services – Margaret P. Eisenhauer, P.C. For the past 17 years, she has helped companies develop and document privacy, security and fair information practices programs. She has extensive experience with U.S. and international privacy laws as well as industry practices for managing consumer, customer and employee information. In addition to traditional legal compliance work, she provides privacy assessment...