Steven
Aftergood, Federation
of American Scientists
|
|  Steven Aftergood is a senior research analyst at the Federation of American
Scientists. He directs the FAS Project on Government Secrecy, which
works to reduce the scope of government secrecy, to accelerate the declassification
of cold war documents, and to promote reform of official secrecy practices.
He writes and edits the email newsletter Secrecy News, which is read by more than 10,000 self-selected subscribers
in media, government and among the general public.
| |
Prof.
Phil Agre, UCLA
Department of Information Studies
Philip
E. Agre is an associate professor of information studies at UCLA. He
received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 1989, having conducted
dissertation research in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory on
computational models of improvised activities. Before arriving at UCLA
he taught at the University of Sussex and UC San Diego, and has been
a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and the University
of Paris. He is the author of Computation and Human Experience (Cambridge
University Press, 1997), and the coeditor of Technology and Privacy:
The New Landscape (with Marc Rotenberg, MIT Press, 1997), Reinventing
Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Studies in Computing
as a Social Practice (with Douglas Schuler, Ablex, 1997), and Computational
Theories of Interaction and Agency (with Stanley J. Rosenschein,
MIT Press, 1996). His current research concerns the role of emerging
information technologies in institutional change; applications include
privacy policy and the networked university. He edits an Internet mailing
list called the Red Rock Eater News Service that distributes useful
information on the social and political aspects of networking and computing
to 5000 people in 60 countries.
|
|
| Prof.
Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
|
 Anita Allen is one of the nation’s leading experts on privacy law.
Allen is the co-author of the innovative, pathbreaking textbook, Privacy
Law and Society (West 2007), and author of Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist
Reflections on Personal Accountability (2003). Her Uneasy Access: Privacy
for Women in a Free Society (1988) was one of the very first books devoted
to a philosophical discussion of privacy and its value. She has published
more than 80 articles and essays. She is also recognized for her scholarship
in the areas of jurisprudence, legal philosophy, law and literature, women’s
rights and race relations.
|
|
| Hon. John Anderson, World Federalist
Association |
|
 The Honorable John Anderson is a former United States presidential candidate
who received 6 million votes as an Independent candidate in 1980. Since
his presidential candidacy, Mr. Anderson has taught political science as
a visiting professor at numerous universities, including Bryn Mawr College,
Brandeis University, Stanford University, Oregon State University and the
University of Illinois. Currently, he is a distinguished visiting professor
at Nova Southeastern Law Center in Florida. Between 1960 and 1980, Mr. Anderson
served ten consecutive terms as U.S. Representative to Congress from the
16th District of Illinois. He served as States Attorney in Winnebago County,
Illinois for four years.
He serves as President of the Center for Voting and Democracy, as well
as President and CEO of the World Federalist Association. Mr. Anderson received
an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School in 1949, and has since been awarded
honorary doctorates of law from Wheaton College and Trinity College.
Ann I. Anton, North Carolina State University
|
 Annie I. Antón is an Associate Professor of Software Engineering in the College of Engineering at the North Carolina State University and Director of ThePrivacyPlace.org. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1997 from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. After one year at the University of South Florida, Dr. Antón joined the computer science department at NC State. She was awarded an NSF CAREER Award in 2000, named a CRA Digital Government Fellow in 2002, nominated and selected for the 2004-2005 IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group, and received the CSO (Chief Security Officer) Magazine "Woman of Influence in the Public Sector" award at the 2005 Executive Women's Forum. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, a senior member of the IEEE as well as a member of the ACM.
Antón currently serves on several boards, including: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, the NSF Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate Advisory Council, the Executive Board of the ACM's US Public Policy Committee (USACM), the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors, the CRA-W Board, an Intel Advisory Board, and the Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees.
|
James
Bamford, Author
and Journalist
 James
Bamford is an author and journalist, and one of the leading
experts on the US intelligence agencies. His 1982 best seller "The Puzzle
Palace" was the first book to describe the inner workings of
the National Security Agency. His subsequent books "Body of Secrets" (2001) and "A
Pretext for War" (2004) have received widespread acclaim.
Throughout his career, Mr. Bamford has made effective use of the Freedom
of Information Act. He was formerly Washington Investigative Producer
for
ABC's World News Tonight.
|
|
|
David Banisar, Privacy International
|
 David Banisar is Director of the Freedom of Information Project of Privacy International in London and a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Previously he was a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a co-founder and Policy Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. He has also served as an advisor and consultant to numerous organizations including the Representative on Freedom of the Media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Justice Canada, the Open Society Institute, Article XIX and Consumers International. He has worked in the field of information policy for fifteen years and is the author of many books, studies, and articles on freedom of information, freedom of expression and privacy.
|
| Ann Bartow, University of
South Carolina School of Law |
|
 Professor Ann Bartow is a graduate of Cornell University and the University
of Pennsylvania School of Law. She joined the faculty of the University
of South Carolina School of Law in 2000, having previously taught at the
University of Dayton School of Law and the University of Idaho School of
Law. Her areas of legal specialty include Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks,
and Cyberspace Law (which is sometimes also referred to as Computer or Internet
Law). She is the author of a number of published articles on Intellectual
Property Law and Cyberspace Law topics. She has a particular interest in
gender issues, as they are effected by law generally, and specifically in
relation to the emerging laws, practices and mores of the Internet.
|
|
| Prof.
Francesca Bignami, Duke Law School |
|
 Professor Bignami teaches European Union law, administrative law, and comparative
public law. Her research focuses on problems of legitimacy and accountability
in the European Union and other systems of international governance as well
as the role of non-state actors in such organizations. Before coming to
Duke, she was in private practice in Washington, D.C., specializing in international
trade.
After receiving her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College and her M.Sc.
from Oxford University, Professor Bignami served for one year in the European
Commission in Brussels where she worked on Community research and development
policy. In 1996, she graduated from Yale Law School, where she was an editor
of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams, U.S.
Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and then served as a stagiare for Advocate
General Philippe Léger of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
In 1998, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the European University Institute
in Florence, Italy.
|
|
| Prof. Christine L. Borgman, UCLA Department
of Information Studies |
|
 Prof. Christine Borgman holds a Ph.D. in Communication with a concentration
in Information Science from Stanford University, a Master of Library Science
with a concentration in Information Science; additional coursework in computer
science and mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.A. with
honor in Mathematics with minors in Social Sciences and Education from Michigan
State University. She has taught classes in Library and Information Science
and Communications at schools such as UCLA, Stanford, Loughborough University
in the United Kingdom, and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.
Her publications include From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure:
Access to Information in the Networked World and Effective Online
Searching: A Basic Text.
|
|
| Prof. James Boyle, Duke Law School |
|
 James
Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School and faculty
co-director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain.
He is the author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction
of the Information Society and, more recently, of The Second
Enclosure Movement. He writes widely on issues of intellectual property,
internet regulation and legal theory. Professor Boyle is a founding board
member
of Creative Commons and a member of the academic advisory board of the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, and of Public Knowledge. He
won the World
Technology Network Award for Law in 2003 for his work on the "intellectual
ecology" of the public domain.
|
|
| Stefan Brands, Microsoft |
|
|
| David
Burnham, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse |
|
 David Burnham is the co-founder and co-director of the Transactional Records
Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). For the last three decades he has specialized
in the critical examination of numerous government enforcement bureaucracies
including the New York Police Department, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Environmental Enforcement Agency,
the Internal Revenue Service, the Food and Drug Administration and the Justice
Department. A reporter with the New York Times from 1968 to 1986,
Burnham has written several books and numerous magazine articles. In 1989,
he became the Washington-based co-director of TRAC, a data-gathering, research
and data-distribution organization associated with Syracuse University,
as well as an associate research professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of
Public Communications.
|
|
| Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google |
|
 Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company.
Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment."
From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.
Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf served as founding president of
the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman
of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum,
dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet
protocol. Cerf has served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information
Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) since 1997 and serves on several national,
state and industry committees focused on cyber-security. Cerf is a principal
for the Global Internet Project (GIP), and he sits on the Board of Directors
for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library,
Gallaudet University, the WorldCom Foundation, Nuance Corporation, Avanex
Corporation, CoSine Corporation, 2BNatural Corporation, B2B Video Networks
and the Hynomics Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History
Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.
Cerf holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University and M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate
degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea
University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma;
Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason
University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and University of Twente, Eschede,
The Netherlands.
|
|
| Dr. David Chaum |
|
 Widely
recognized as the inventor of electronic cash and as the founding CEO of
DigiCash, its pioneering company, David Chaum has also been awarded
more than twenty patents and published over 50 original scientific articles
on cryptography—mainly on techniques allowing individuals to
protect their own privacy. A publication resulting from his Master's thesis
presented the first way to secure and protect privacy of elections conducted
over computer networks; his work since early 2000 has focused again on voting
and he has been involved in founding companies in that space. He received
his Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a minor in Business Administration,
from Berkeley, and has taught at NYU Graduate School of Business Administration
and at the University of California. He built a leading research group in
cryptography at CWI in the Netherlands and also founded the International
Association for Cryptographic Research. Currently he is also a member of
the PRIME project and the Annon project.
|
|
| Prof. Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University Law Center |
|
 Professor Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and
data privacy law, with particular focus on computer software and digital
works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the First Amendment
in cyberspace. She is co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy
(Aspen Law & Business 2002), and is a member of the Advisory Boards
of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge. Following
law school, Professor Cohen clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt
of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and then practiced with
the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she
specialized in intellectual property litigation. Prior to joining the Law
Center Faculty in 1999, Professor Cohen was Assistant Professor of Law at
the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
|
|
| Bill Coleman, Cassatt, Inc. |
|
|
| Simon Davies, Director General, Privacy International |
|  Simon
Davies is one of the world's leading figures in privacy and
data
protection and has worked in more than 30 countries on issues
ranging from identity cards to military surveillance. His work
in privacy, data protection, consumer rights, policy analysis
and technology assessment has spanned more than twenty years.
Simon¹s role as founder and director of the watchdog group
Privacy International has put him at the cutting edge of privacy
across the full spectrum of issues. His expertise in identity
and identity systems, in particular, has been called upon by
many of the world's intergovernmental organisations and parliaments.
The UK based Privacy International, now with members in more
than 40 countries, was founded in 1990 and is a strong voice
for privacy reform across the world.
Davies is also the
founder of the Big Brother Awards, a prize now given internationally
to organizations and individuals who commit particularly flagrant
violations of the right to privacy. Since 1997 Simon has been
a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Information Systems of
the London School of Economics. He has also been a consultant
adviser to numerous government, professional and corporate bodies
in Europe and North America. His publications include Privacy
and Human Rights 1998: An International Survey of Privacy Laws
and Developments, by David Banisar and Simon Davies (1998)
and Big Brother: Britain's Web of Surveillance and the New
Technological Order (Pan Books, 1997).
|
|
| Dr. Whitfield
Diffie, Vice President and Fellow, Chief Security Officer, Sun
Microsystems |
|
 Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems, is a Sun
Distinguished Engineer and has been at Sun since 1991. As Chief Security
Officer, Diffie is the chief exponent of Sun's security vision and responsible
for developing Sun's strategy to achieve that vision.
Best known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography,
Diffie spent the 1990s working primarily on the public policy aspects
of
cryptography and has testified several times in the Senate and House of
Representatives. His position—in opposition to limitations on the business
and personal use of cryptography—is the subject of the book Crypto,
by Steven Levy of Newsweek. Diffie and Susan Landau are joint authors
of
the book Privacy on the Line, which examines the politics of wiretapping
and encryption and won the Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical
Relevance in Communications Policy Research and the IEEE-USA award for
Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of
the Profession.
Diffie is a fellow of the Marconi Foundation and is the recipient of awards
from a number of organizations, including IEEE, The Electronic Frontiers Foundation,
NIST, NSA, the Franklin Institute and ACM. Prior to assuming his present position in 1991, Diffie was Manager of Secure
Systems Research for Northern Telecom, where he designed the key management
architecture for NT's PDSO security system for X.25 packet networks. Diffie received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1965, and was awarded a Doctorate in Technical
Sciences (Honoris Causa) by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
1992.
|
|
| Prof. David Farber, University
of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science |
|
 Prof. Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and
Public Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
holding secondary appointments in the Heinz School of Public Policy and
the Engineering Public Policy Group. He recently (2003) retired as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication
Systems at the University of Pennsylvania where he also held appointments
as Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business
and as a Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School of Communications.
In January 17, 2000, he was appointed to be Chief Technologist at the
US Federal Communications Commission while on leave from UPenn for one
year ending in early June 2001. While at UPenn, he co-directed The Penn Initiative
on Markets, Technology and Policy. He was also Director of the Distributed
Systems Laboratory (DSL) where he managed leading edge research in
Ultra High Speed Networking. Research papers of the DSL are available in
its electronic library.
His early academic
research work was focused at creating the worlds first operational Distributed
Computer System (DCS) while at the ICS Department
at the University of California at Irvine. After that, while with the
Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Delaware, he helped
conceive
and organize CSNet, NSFNet and the NREN. He was a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Internet Society as well as having serving 10 years on
the National
Research Council's Computer Science
and Telecommunications Board (CSTB).
He was named in the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE's Elite 100, as one of
the Visionaries of the field and was named in the 1999 Network World
as one
of the 25 most powerful people in Networking. In 2002 he was named by
Business Week as one of the top 25 leaders in E-Commerce. His industrial
experiences
are extensive, just as he entered the academic world; he co-founded Caine,
Farber & Gordon Inc. (CFG Inc.) which became one of the leading suppliers
of software design methodology. His consulting activities include Intel,
the RAND Corp among others. He is also on a number of industrial advisory
and management boards.
|
|
Charles M. Firestone, Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program
|
 Charles M. Firestone has been Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program since 1989. For three years he was also the Institute’s Executive Vice President for Policy Programs and International Activities. Previously, Firestone was Director of the Communications Law Program and Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Law School, 1977-90. He was also the first President of the Los Angeles Board of Telecommunications Commissioners. Firestone’s legal career includes positions as an appellate attorney at the Federal Communications Commission, as director of litigation for a Washington DC public interest law firm, and as a communications attorney in Los Angeles. He has argued several communications law cases before the United States Supreme Court and other federal appellate courts. Firestone is a GLOCOM Fellow (Japan) and was a Visiting Professor at the Duke University Terry Sanford Institute in 2003. He holds degrees from Amherst College and Duke University Law School.
|
| Addison Fischer, Fischer International Corporation |
|
|
|
Hon. David Flaherty, former Information and Privacy Commissioner British Columbia
|
David Flaherty is a specialist in the management of privacy and information policy issues. He served a six-year, non-renewable term as the first Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia (1993-99). He built an office of 25 staff with an enviable record for successful mediation of access to information disputes. Flaherty wrote 320 Orders under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. He also pioneered the development of site visits to public bodies (hospitals in particular) as a form of auditing for compliance with fair information practices.
Flaherty began his involvement with privacy issues as an assistant to Alan F. Westin at Columbia University in 1964. Flaherty’s first book was Privacy in Colonial New England (1972). In 1974 he started comparative public policy work in Europe and North America that led to a series of books, including Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies: The Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and the United States (1989). His most recent articles are “Visions of Privacy: Past, Present, and Future,” in C.J. Bennett and R. Grant, eds., Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age (University of Toronto Press, 1999); and “Controlling Surveillance,” in P. Agre and M. Rotenberg, eds., Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (MIT Press, 1997). Flaherty has written or edited fourteen books.
Flaherty is an Honours graduate of McGill University (1962) and has an MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. His teaching career from 1965 to 1993 included Princeton University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Western Ontario, where he was professor of history and law from 1972 to 1999 and from which he is now a professor emeritus. He was the first director (1984-89) of its Centre for American Studies. He has held fellowships and scholarships at Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, and Georgetown Universities. In 1992-93 Flaherty was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a Canada-US. Fulbright Scholar in Law. Flaherty is currently an adjunct professor in political science at the University of Victoria.
|
|
Philip
Friedman, Consumer Attorney
 Philip
Friedman is a leading consumer attorney in Washington, DC. His cases have
established important precedent concerning the legal remedies available
to consumers, and also provided significant financial support for law
school clinics and consumer advocacy organizations throughout the Washington,
DC area. Mr. Friedman is also a specialist in election law. Mr. Friedman
is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland and California.
Mr. Friedman is also a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association,
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, and the National Association of Consumer
Advocates.
|
| Austin Hill, Co-founder and President, Zero-Knowledge
Systems |
|
 Austin Hill is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Zero-Knowledge
Systems, a leading provider of security and privacy software for consumers
and businesses. A serial entrepreneur, Austin has built three companies
from the ground up, beginning with his first at age 17. Before co-founding
Zero-Knowledge, Austin was founder and president of Infobahn Online Services,
which merged to form TotalNet, one of Canada's most successful Internet
companies to date. Prior to TotalNet, he created Cyberspace Data Security,
an early network security consulting firm. A frequent lecturer on security
and privacy, Austin has spoken at international venues including Comdex,
the International Conference on Privacy and Personal Data Protection, and
the Federal Trade Commission's workshops on online profiling and children's
online privacy. Austin contributed his ideas on the future of privacy at
the World Economic Forum's 2001 annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which
he attended as a Technology Pioneer. He has been quoted or profiled in leading
media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and 60
Minutes.
Austin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Information Technology Association
of Canada.
|
|
| Deborah
Hurley |
 Deborah
Hurley is the Principal of the consulting firm she founded in 1996, which
advises governments, international organizations, non-governmental organizations,
and foundations on information and communication policy. She was (1997-2002)
Director of the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard University,
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, and a Senior Research Associate in the Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and in the Center for Business and
Government (CBG) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Hurley
was an official (1988-96) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) in Paris, France. At the OECD, she had responsibility
for identifying emerging issues related to protection of personal data and
privacy, security of information systems, cryptography technology and policy,
and protection of intellectual property. From 1983
through 1988, Hurley practiced intellectual property law in the United States,
including copyright, trade secret, trademark, and computer law.
She
is the recipient of the 2002 Namur Award, a biennial award given
by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in recognition
of outstanding contributions, with international impact, to awareness of
the social implications of information technology. Hurley was also
selected as one of seven finalists in the Policy category of the inaugural
World Technology Awards. She is
the author of Pole Star: Human Rights in the Information Society (International
Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2003) and "Security
and Privacy Laws: The Showstoppers of the Global Information Society" in Masters
of the Wired World (Pitman Publishing, 1999), as well as several other
publications.
|
|
| Joi Ito, Creative Commons |
|
|
| Prof. Jerry Kang, UCLA Law School |
|
 Professor Jerry Kang is a magna cum laude graduate of both Harvard College (physics) and the Harvard Law School. He writes on race, communications, and their intersection. On race, he has focused on the Asian American community on matters ranging from affirmative action to the Japanese American internment. He is a co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: The Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen 2001). He also helped launch the "behavioral realism" movement, which calls on the law to be more responsive to what the mind sciences have revealed about human decision-making and behavior, especially in the context of interracial interactions.
On communications, he has published interdisciplinary articles on information privacy, pervasive computing, and mass media policy. He is also the author of Communications Law & Policy (2d ed. Foundation 2005). At the nexus of these fields, he has published two groundbreaking articles in the Harvard Law Review about how race is constructed in cyberspace (Cyber-race 2000) and how FCC media policy inadvertently exacerbates implicit bias (Trojan Horses of Race 2005).
Since 1995 Prof. Kang has been teaching at UCLA, where he helped found the Specialization in Critical Race Studies and acted as its founding co-director for two years. He has also visited at Harvard Law School and Georgetown Law Center. He is married and has a young daughter. Besides family and research, his passion is Hwa Rang Do, a Korean martial art.
|
|
| Prof. Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford Law School |
|
|
| Judith Krug, Office of Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association |
|
 No person is more closely identified with libraries and the cause of intellectual
freedom than Judith F. Krug. Director of the American Library Association's
Office for Intellectual Freedom since it was founded in 1967, Judith Krug
continues to remain unparalleled in her commitment to educating the public
about their rights to free access of all expressions and ideas. Since 1968,
Ms. Krug has advised countless numbers of librarians and trustees in dealing
with challenges to library materials. She helped to found the Freedom to
Read Foundation, a sister organization of ALA, and has served as its executive
director since 1969. Krug also helped found Banned Books Week, an annual
celebration of the right of individuals to choose their own reading materials.
The program serves to raise awareness about censorship and remind Americans
that our freedoms can be fragile if we're not vigilant in protecting them.
In addition to her ALA responsibilities, Ms. Krug serves as a senator of
the Phi Beta Kappa society and is a member of The GetNetWise Advisory Board
and vice-chair of the Internet Education Foundation. She is Chair of the
Board of Directors of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Honors include
the Carl Sandburg "Freedom to Read" Award, 1983 (presented by
the Friends of the Chicago Public Library); President's Award, Minnesota
Civil Liberties Union, l985; Intellectual Freedom Award, Illinois Library
Association, l990; Freedom
to Read Foundation Roll of Honor Award, l995; Irita Van Doren Award presented
by the American Booksellers, the Harry Kalven Freedom of Expression Award
presented by the American Civil Liberties Union to the ALA's Office for
Intellectual Freedom, and the Joseph P. Lippincott Award, in recognition
of the leadership and support she has provided to the ALA.
|
|
Chris
Larsen, CEO & Co-Founder
Prosper
Chris
Larsen is the CEO and co-founder of Prosper, America's first
people-to-people lending marketplace. Prior to Prosper, Mr. Larsen co-founded
and served as Chairman and CEO of E-LOAN. Mr. Larsen has also been a
tireless champion for privacy rights nationally and in California where
he co-founded and financially backed Californians for Privacy Now (CFPN).
Mr. Larsen and CFPN led and supported grassroots efforts to safeguard
consumers' privacy, and played a critical role in pressing the California
state legislature to pass the strongest financial privacy law in
the nation.
|
|
|
Prof.
Gary Marx, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
 Gary T. Marx is Professor Emeritus from M.I.T. Among other works he is
the author of Protest and Prejudice, Undercover: Police Surveillance in
America and Undercover: Police Surveillance in Comparative Perspective.
His work has appeared or been reprinted in over 300 books, monographs and
periodicals and translated into many languages. He received his Ph.D. from
the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught there, at Harvard
University and the University of Colorado and in Belgium, Spain, Austria
and China and lectured throughout the world on the social implications of
new information technologies. Some of his research may be seen at garymarx.net.
|
|
| Mary Minow, Library Law Consultant, LibraryLaw.com |
|
 Mary Minow received her B.A. from Brown University, her A.M.L.S. from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her J.D. from Stanford University.
She is a consultant and has taught as an adjunct professor of library law
at San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science.
She is an attorney and specializes in library law, consulting with libraries
on First Amendment, privacy, and other issues. Minow is Policy Analyst for the the California Association of Library Trustees
and Commissioners, and she advises the association on intellectual freedom
and other issues.
Minow worked for over ten years as a public librarian, with positions ranging
from outreach to reference to branch manager. In addition to this, she has
experience with special and academic libraries, and in the information industry
as an online database consultant with Dialog Information Services. She has
also served as an advisor to the Library of Congress on internet access
issues. Minow is coauthor of The Library's Legal Answer Book (American Library
Association: 2003), and writes articles on libraries and free speech, privacy
and copyright issues.
|
|
Pablo G. Molina, Georgetown University Law Center
|
 Pablo G. Molina has been the chief information officer at the Georgetown University Law Center Campus since October 2000. Prior to that, he held similar positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in Saint Louis, and was a lecturer at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Before his career in academia, Mr. Molina founded and managed a technology company in Spain, where he also served as editor-in-chief of computer magazines, authored several books on technology, and taught information technology at the Escuela de Hacienda Pública in Madrid. Mr. Molina has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Saint Louis University, has done graduate coursework at the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis, and currently is pursuing a Doctorate in Liberal Studies degree at Georgetown University. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, a Certified Novell Engineer, and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
He was the recipient of the 2006 CIO Magazine Ones to Watch Award and the Standout Achievement Award as Innovator, and recognized in 2007 as one of the Top 40 Under 40 IT Innovators by ComputerWorld. Mr. Molina was nominated for the Mid-Atlantic Information Security Executive of the Year and the National Information Security Executive of the Year awards in 2007. He chaired the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies Committee in 2005-2006 and served on the American Bar Association Facilities Committee from 2000 to 2006.
|
| Dr. Peter G. Neumann, SRI International |
|
 Peter G. Neumann has doctorates from Harvard and Darmstadt. After 10 years
at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the 1960s, he has been in SRI's
Computer Science Lab since September 1971. He is concerned with computer
systems and networks, security, reliability, survivability, safety, and
many risks-related issues such as voting-system integrity, crypto policy,
social implications, and human needs including privacy. He moderates the
ACM Risks Forum, edits CACM's monthly Inside Risks column, chairs the ACM
Committee on Computers and Public Policy, co-chairs the ACM Advisory Committee
on Security and Privacy, co-founded People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR),
and CO-founded the Union for Representative International Internet Cooperation
and Analysis (URIICA). His book, Computer-Related Risks, is in its fifth
printing. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, and is also an SRI
Fellow. He is a member of the U.S. General Accounting Office Executive Council
on Information Management and Technology. He has taught at Stanford, U.C.
Berkeley, and the University of Maryland.
|
|
| Prof. Eli Noam, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information |
|
 Eli Noam has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. He served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission, and is a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Information Technology. He is the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele -Information, a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. Noam also chairs the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School. Besides over 300 articles in economic, legal, communications, and other journals, Professor Noam has also authored, and edited, more than 20 books.
|
|
| Spencer Overton, The George Washington University Law School |
 Spencer Overton is Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, and he specializes the law of democracy. Professor Overton's academic articles on election law have appeared in several leading law journals, and his book "Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression" was recently published and released by W.W. Norton. He was also a commissioner on the Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform as well as the Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling. Professor Overton currently serves on the boards of Common Cause, Demos, and the American Constitution Society. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Project at Yale, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to articulating new ideas for enriching American democracy. He co-founded the weblog blackprof.com with GW Law Professor Paul Butler, and regularly blogs at techpresident.com. Professor Overton is currently writing a book on next generation politics.
|
|
| Ray Ozzie, Microsoft |
|
 Ray Ozzie is Microsoft’s chief software architect. Ozzie is responsible for oversight of the company's technical strategy and product architecture, and is directing development of the company’s next-generation software services platform. Ozzie, considered a pioneer in computer-supported cooperative work, has served as a member of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, and was a member of the NRC committee that produced the landmark CRISIS report on the societal impact of cryptography.
|
|
| Dr. Deborah Peel, Patients Privacy Rights |
 Dr. Deborah Peel is the founder of Patient Privacy Rights, based in Austin, Texas, and one of the leading advocates for medical privacy in the United States. A practicing psychiatrist for 27 years, she understands that people will avoid or refuse necessary medical treatment if they think others can see or use their private and personal medical records. She has provided testimony to Congressional committees on genetic privacy and medical record privacy. She recently led a coalition of 26 organizations across the political spectrum that urged Congress to insure that patients control access to their medical records in all electronic health systems.
|
|
| Stephanie
Perrin, Integrity Policy, Service Canada |
 Stephanie Perrin is the Director of Integrity Policy at Service Canada, the largest service delivery department in the Canadian federal government. She was the former Director of Research and Policy at the
Office of Privacy Commissioner, Canada. She was a well-known consultant in privacy and information policy issues, providing advice to industry and government in the practical implementation of data protection policies and procedures, and. an active participant in policy discussions involving civil liberties. She is the former Chief Privacy Officer of Zero-Knowledge, the first CPO in Canada, and has been active in a number of CPO associations, working with those responsible for implementing privacy in their organizations. Active in domestic and international privacy policy and compliance fora, Stephanie has been involved in privacy issues at the practical, policy and legislative level for many years.
Stephanie was instrumental in developing Canada's privacy and cryptography policies for over fifteen years. In the early eighties, Stephanie was one of Canada’s first Freedom of Information and Privacy Officers, and was the first President of the professional association, the Canadian Access and Privacy Association. She has received awards for her work in furthering international work in freedom of information and privacy from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Pioneer 2001) and the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (2001).
|
|
| Chip Pitts, Amnesty International |
|
|
| Anita Ramasastry, University of Washington Law School |
|
Anita Ramasastry is an associate professor of law and a director of the
Shidler Center for Law, Commerce, & Technology at the University of
Washington School of Law in Seattle, Washington. Prior to joining the University of Washington faculty, Professor Ramasastry
was a staff attorney at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has also
been an associate at the law firm of White & Case in Budapest, Hungary,
and assistant professor of law at the Central European University in Budapest.
She was the symposium editor for the Harvard International Law Journal and
has clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
From 20001-2003 Ramasastry was a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet
& Society, Harvard Law School. Professor Ramasastry's research interests include commercial law, ecommerce,
and banking and payment systems. She is a regular columnist for findlaw.com
and writes about data protection and civil liberties and technology.
Ronald
L. Rivest Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science MIT
 Ronald L. Rivest is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Professor Rivest He is a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a member of the lab's Theory of Computation Group and a founder of its Cryptography and Information Security Group. He is also a founder of RSA Data Security (now merged with Security Dynamics to form RSA Security) and of Peppercoin. Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and network security, electronic voting, and algorithms.
|
|
| Jeffrey Rosen, George Washington University |
|
 Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His new book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, the companion book to the PBS series on the Supreme Court. He is also the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. His essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the ten best magazine journalists in America and the L.A. Times called him “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator.” He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Christine Rosen and two sons.
|
|
| Prof. Pam Samuelson, UC Berkeley, School of Information
Management and Systems and School
of Law |
|
 Pamela Samuelson is Chancellor's Professor at the University of California
at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management
& Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of
the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual
property, cyberlaw and information policy. She has written and spoken extensively
about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional
legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law and is an advisor
for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic. A 1976 graduate
of Yale Law School, she practiced law as an associate with the New York
law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher before turning to more academic pursuits.
From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University
of Pittsburgh Law School, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and
Emory Law Schools.
In June of 1997 Samuelson was named a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation. She is also a Fellow of the Association of Computing
Machinery, a Public Policy Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a member of the American Law
Institute. Since 1990 she has been a Contributing Editor of the computing
professionals' journal, Communications of the ACM, for which she has written
a regular "Legally Speaking" column. Samuelson is currently serving
on the National Research Council's Study Committee on Intellectual Property
Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy and previously served on the Council's
Study Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the National Information
Infrastructure which produced a report entitled "The Digital Dilemma:
Intellectual Property Rights in an Information Age." In June 2000,
the National Law Journal named her as one of the hundred most influential
lawyers in the U.S.
|
|
| Bruce Schneier, Counterpane
Systems |
|
 Bruce Schneier is the Chief Technology Officer of BT Counterpane, the world leader in Managed Security Monitoring. Counterpane
provides security monitoring services to Fortune 2000 companies worldwide.
He is the author of seven books on security and cryptography, including
his most recent book, Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security
in an Uncertain World. His first book, Applied Cryptography,
has sold over 150,000 copies and is the definitive work in the field. Schneier
designed the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms, and writes the
influential "Crypto-Gram"
monthly newsletter. He is a frequent lecturer on computer security and cryptography.
|
|
| Prof. Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn
Law School |
|
 Paul M. Schwartz is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School (Brooklyn,
New York). He is a leading international expert in the field of information
law who has published and lectured on issues concerning computers and the
Internet in the United States and Europe. In this country, his articles
and essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford
Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and New York University Law Review. He
is the co-author of Data Privacy Law (1996), the first and most in-depth
study of the privacy protection provided for personal information in the
United States, and On-Line Services and Data Protection Law and Privacy
: Regulatory Responses (1998), a study carried out for the Commission
of the European Union that examines emerging issues in Internet privacy
in four European countries. Paul Schwartz is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as a senior
editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his undergraduate education
at Brown University.
|
|
| Barbara Simons, Association for Computing Machinery |
|
|
| Paul M. Smith, Jenner & Block, LLP |
|
|
|
| Robert Ellis Smith, Privacy Journal |
|
Robert Ellis Smith is a journalist who uses his training as an attorney
to report on the individual's right to privacy. Since 1974, he has published
Privacy Journal, a monthly newsletter on privacy in a computer age based
in Providence, R.I. Smith is the author of Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy
and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet (Spring 2000), the
first and only published history of privacy in the U.S. He is also the author
of Our Vanishing Privacy (1993), The Law of Privacy Explained
(1993), Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It; Workrights,
a book describing individual rights in the work place; and The Big Brother
Book of Lists. Privacy Journal also publishes Compilation of State
and Federal Privacy Laws, Celebrities and Privacy, and War
Stories, a collection of anecdotes on privacy invasions. Smith has been
asked to write the definitive statement on privacy in the last two editions
of The World Book Encyclopedia. He has appeared on all three network
morning news programs, as well as "Face the Nation," "Nightline,"
and "All Things Considered." He has been a regular commentator
on "Marketplace" on American Public Radio.
|
|
| Prof.
Daniel J. Solove, George
Washington University Law School |
| 
Daniel J. Solove is an associate professor at the George Washington
University Law School. An internationally-known expert in privacy
law, Solove is the author of THE DIGITAL PERSON: TECHNOLOGY
AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE, which distinguished Berkeley
Law School Professor Pamela Samuelson declares as “the
best exposition thus far about the threat that computer databases
containing personal data about millions of Americans poses for
information privacy.” The Wall Street Journal declares
that Solove is “one of the few that truly understands
the intersection of law and technology” and describes
his book as a “fascinating journey into the almost surreal
ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the
digital age."
Solove
is also the author of an 1000-page textbook, INFORMATION PRIVACY
LAW, now in its second edition, with co-authors Marc Rotenberg
and Paul Schwartz. Solove has published about 20 articles, which
have appeared in leading law reviews such as the Yale Law Journal,
Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review,
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Duke Law Journal.
He has contributed to amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme
Court, testified before Congress, and has been interviewed and
featured in over 100 media broadcasts and articles, including
the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago
Tribune, USA Today, Associated Press, Business Week, ABC, CBS,
NBC, CNN, and NPR. A graduate of Yale Law School, he clerked
for Judge Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District
of Columbia and Judge Pamela Ann Rymer, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the 9th Circuit. He also worked at the law firm Arnold &
Porter in Washington, DC. Professor Solove teaches information
privacy law, criminal procedure, criminal law, and law and literature.
Professor Solove blogs at http://www.concurringopinions.com.
For more information about Professor Solove, go to http://www.danielsolove.com.
|
|
| Latanya Sweeney, Carnegie Mellon University |
|
 Latanya Sweeney is Associate Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She has made a career of weaving technology and policy together. Dr. Sweeney develops algorithms and constructs real-world systems that allow information to be shared with provable guarantees of privacy (legally and scientifically) while remaining practically useful. Dr. Sweeney has made numerous discoveries related to identifiability and privacy technologies and she has had significant impact on American privacy policy. Her work has received awards from numerous organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Informatics Association, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Dr. Sweeney’s work has appeared in hundreds of news articles, numerous academic papers, was cited in the original publication of the HIPAA Privacy Rule and was praised in the TAPAC Report that reviewed the Total Information Awareness Project of DARPA. She has also testified before the Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security and the European Union Commission. Companies have licensed and continue to use her privacy technologies. Dr. Sweeney also founded and serves as the Director of the Data Privacy Lab. She received her PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her undergraduate degree in computer science was completed at Harvard University.
|
|
| Prof. Frank Tuerkheimer, University
of Wisconsin Law School, Madison |
|
 Frank Tuerkheimer is the Habush-Bascom Professor of Law at the University
of Wisconsin and of counsel to the Madison firm of LaFollette Godfrey and
Kahn. He has been United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin,
an Associate Watergate Prosecutor and an Assistant United States Attorney
in the Southern District of New York. As a private attorney, he has represented
public interest groups for almost 30 years. He has also written in the areas
of Evidence, Criminal Law and Privacy and has testified on these issues
before Senate committees.
|
|
| Edward
G. Viltz |
|
Edward G. Viltz is president and founder of the Internet Collaboration Coalition (Internet CC). InternetCC is a consulting company dedicated to assisting organizations expand their presence through the effective use of the Internet.
He has over 25 years of international executive management, consulting and entrepreneurial experience in the information technology marketplace.
He was the founding President of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), manager of the .ORG top level Internet domain, serving from 2002 through 2006. During that time PIR experienced phenomenal revenue growth from $1.9 million to over $32 million. In addition, .org domain names under management grew from 2.6 million to 5.3 million while attaining all budget and financial objectives. The .org domain is now growing at a greater percentage rate than both .com and .net.
He previously formed Technology Integration Solutions (TIS), an international consulting company, as a project management and business development firm focusing on setting up school-based Internet and technology partnerships between the United States and African countries. He was vice president and chief operations officer for Pulsar Data Systems. He also co-founded and served as president of Enterprise Integration Corporation (EIC) and held a variety of key management posts with the IBM Corporation.
During his IBM career, he helped develop multiple new business distribution and industry channels. In addition, he held several executive-level and management positions nationwide, and he was recognized for business management, revenue growth and human resources development. Most notable, he was a Loaned Executive from IBM to the small disadvantaged business community, and he developed a national network of technology companies owned by female and minority entrepreneurs.
Currently, he is on the board and is past chairman of Progressive Life Centers. He also is on the board of the School of Information Studies, Syracuse University; and Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Additionally, he served on former White House councils on small business and closing the digital divide. He is also a member of the Bulgarian President’s IT Advisory Council and has consulted to governments, civil society organizations and corporations internationally.
He has a bachelor's degree from Southern University in New Orleans (SUNO) and has done graduate studies at Harvard University school of business and also holds a master's degree in organizational management from the University of Phoenix. In 1993, he was inducted into the Who's Who in Black America.
|
|
| Dr. Willis Ware, RAND Corporation |
|
 Willis H. Ware (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1951) is a senior computer
scientist emeritus with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
An electrical engineer, he has devoted his career to all aspects of computer
technology – hardware, software, architectures, software development,
networks, federal agency and military applications, management of computer-intensive
projects, public policy and legislation. He chaired a Department of Defense committee in the late 1960s that created
the first definitive discussion of information system security and treated
it as both a technical matter and a policy issue. Later, in the early 1970s
he chaired the cabinet-level "HEW committee" whose report was
the foundation for the United States Federal Privacy Act of 1974. Subsequently,
President Gerald Ford appointed him to the Privacy Protection Study Commission
whose report remains the most extensive examination of private sector record-keeping
practices. Most recently his interests have turned to the vulnerabilities
of highly automated and computerized information-oriented societies, and
the technical and policy aspects of protecting their national information
infrastructure. Dr. Ware is the first and past chairman of the (U.S.) Information System
and Privacy Advisory Board, which he chaired for eleven years following
its creation. It is a statutory body created by the Computer Security Act
of 1987 and advises the United States government on societal impacts of
computer technology and broad aspects of the government's information system
infrastructure.
|
|
| Chris Wolf, Proskauer Rose, LLP |
|
|
| Paul Wolfson, Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP |
Paul Wolfson has a Supreme Court and appellate practice at the Washington,
D.C. law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering LLP. Before entering private practice, Mr. Wolfson worked in the Solicitor General's
Office of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued 19 cases before
the United States Supreme Court. He worked on many of the government's leading
information-privacy cases, including Reno v. Condon, which upheld the Drivers
Privacy Protection Act against a constitutional challenge. He also worked
on many First Amendment communications law cases, including Turner Broadcasting
System v. FCC (involving the cable must-carry law), as well as U.S. Term
Limits v. Thornton (the "term limits" case), and Printz v. United
States (the "Brady Bill" case). Before his government service, Mr. Wolfson was at Public Citizen Litigation
Group, where he successfully litigated Gredinger v. Davis, a leading information-privacy
decision that invalidated Virginia's requirement that social security numbers
be displayed in public voter registration records. He also litigated several
Freedom of Information Act cases in the federal courts.
Mr. Wolfson currently serves as a member of the D.C. Board on Professional
Responsibility, the attorney-disciplinary authority of the District of Columbia
Bar. He is also active in immigration-law issues, and serves as vice-chair
of the Immigrants' Rights Subcommittee of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities
Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Wolfson is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B.1982), Trinity College,
University of Cambridge (M. Phil. 1984), and Yale Law School (J.D. 1987).
Following law school he clerked for Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and for Justice Byron R. White of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
|
EPIC Board of Directors and Staff Page
| EPIC Home Page
Last Updated:
October 2, 2008
Page URL: http://www.epic.org/epic/advisory_board.html
|
