Speaker Biographies

 

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Adams, Carlisle

Carlisle Adams is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of Ottawa.  Prior to his academic appointment in 2003, he worked for 13 years in industry (Nortel, Entrust) in the design and standardization of a variety of cryptographic and security technologies for the Internet.  His research and technical contributions include the CAST family of symmetric encryption algorithms, secure protocols for authentication and management in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) environments, and a comprehensive architecture and policy language for access control in electronic networks.  Dr. Adams is co-author of Understanding PKI:  Concepts, Standards, and Deployment Considerations, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2003).  He is a Senior Member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), and is licensed as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.).

 

Amouroux, Arnaud

Arnaud Amouroux is Project Coordinator in the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media since February 2004. He has been engaged in a number of activities with regard to promoting media freedom, fighting undue speech restrictions and monitoring press violations in the OSCE region (Balkans, Turkey, Southern Europe). Arnaud holds a master's degree in International Administration Law from University of Pantheon-Sorbonne in Paris and a BA in Political Science from Toulouse's Institute for Political Studies. He has also studied in Cardiff and Milan.

 

Bailey, Jane

Jane Bailey joined the Faculty of Law at Ottawa University  in 2002. She teaches regulation of Internet communications, civil procedure and contracts. Professor Bailey completed her LL.M. at the University of Toronto in 2002, supported by a Centre for Innovation Law and Policy scholarship and an Ontario Scholarship. She was a co-recipient of the Howland Prize for outstanding performance in the LL.M. programme. She served as a law clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice John Sopinka at the Supreme Court of Canada. Before returning to legal studies, Professor Bailey practised law in Toronto with Torys, where she was an associate in the litigation department. Her litigation experience included acting on matters relating to unlawful search of political protesters, and to the application of existing laws governing hate speech to an Internet website.

Her primary areas of interest relate to the intersections between law, evolving technology and equity. Professor Bailey's LL.M. research related to the potential for regulation of Internet hate speech. Her ongoing research focuses on the impact of evolving technology on significant public commitments to equality rights, freedom of expression and multiculturalism, as well as the societal and cultural impact of the Internet and emerging forms of private technological control, particularly in relation to members of socially disadvantaged communities.

 

Bendrath, Ralf
Ralf Bendrath is a political scientist and a researcher on privacy policy at the University of Bremen. He is active in groups like European Digital Rights (EDRi), Working Group against Data Retention (AK Vorrat) and the UN Internet Governance Forum's Dynamic Coalition on Privacy.
Website: http://bendrath.blogspot.com/

 

Bennett, Colin

Colin Bennett received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Wales, and his Ph.D from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Since 1986 he has taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he is now Professor.  From 1999-2000, he was a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.  In 2007 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at University of California, Berkeley.  His research has focused on the comparative analysis of surveillance technologies and privacy protection policies at the domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published three books:  Regulating Privacy:  Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United States (Cornell University Press, 1992); Visions of Privacy:  Policy Choices for the Digital Age (University of Toronto Press, 1999, with Rebecca Grant); The Governance of Privacy:  Policy Instruments in the Digital Age (Ashgate Press, 2003; MIT Press, 2006 with Charles Raab).

 

Blaze, Matt

Matt Blaze teaches computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on the architecture and design of secure systems based on cryptographic techniques, analysis of secure systems against practical attack models, and on finding new cryptographic primitives and techniques. This work has led directly to several new cryptographic concepts, including: "Remotely-Keyed Encryption," which allows the use of inexpensive, low-bandwidth secure hardware to protect high-bandwidth communication and stored data, "Atomic Proxy Cryptography," which allows re-encryption by un-trusted third parties, and "Master-Key Encryption," which provides a systematic way to design (and study) ciphers with built-in "back doors." He is famous for having discovered a flaw in the "Clipper Chip" during the 90's, and has a keen interest in public policy issues related to cryptography and computing. 

 

He has a PhD and an MA in computer science from Princeton, and an MS in computer science from Columbia.

 

Boa, Krista

Krista Boa's research focuses on how technology-based identification systems, such as machine-readable travel documents and national ID cards, are framed in public debate and the implications of these discursive constructions for public policy decision-making and the deliberative process generally. She is also interested in how these discourses (and the design of the systems themselves) transform conceptions of identity, anonymity, and privacy. Other related areas of interest which inform her research include: security and border policy, surveillance, access to information, and conceptualisations of privacy, particularly legal and theoretical arguments about reasonable expectations of privacy in public. She is part of the SSHRC INE-supported Digital Identity Construction project and the SSHRC INE-supported On the Identity Trail project. Her doctoral studies are supported by the SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship program.

Bonnet, Bobbi
Bobbi Bonnet is currently the Compliance and Security Officer for Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, the electronic health record system for Kaiser Permanente (KP). Kaiser Permanente is an organization comprised of three distinct entities, the not-for-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and the for-profit Permanente Medical Groups. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan serves 8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia, making it the largest non-profit HMO/integrated health care organization of its kind in the United States. KP operates 32 hospitals and over 430 medical office buildings in the jurisdictions where it operates. The range of services provided includes all medical specialties and ancillary services such as pharmacy, lab and diagnostic imaging, home health, hospice and skilled nursing care. KP has 12,000 + physicians and 150,000 + employees in the organization. KP HealthConnect is the largest initiative to automate medical records, outside of the US government, in the world. Ms. Bonnet has extensive (35+ years) clinical and operational experience in health care delivery and administration that includes emergency management, performance improvement, regulatory compliance, project management, strategic and disaster planning, compliance and investigative experience, and care delivery operations. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Bobbi worked in a variety of health care settings, including acute care hospitals and clinics, tertiary trauma center, pre-hospital care administration, ambulatory and long term care, and regulatory agencies. She has a Diploma in Nursing, a Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing from the University of North Florida, and a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of San Francisco.

Bouma, Tim 

Tim Bouma is the Acting Director, Identity Management, TBS CIO Branch. Mr. Bouma is leading the efforts to develop a Government of Canada-wide Identity Management Strategy. Prior to joining TBS, Mr. Bouma was an Executive Management Consultant with CGI.  He also held senior management positions within the software industry with Open Text and Hummingbird.  Mr. Bouma has an Executive MBA from the University of Ottawa, and a B.A. Sc. from the University of Waterloo.

 

Boudreau, Denis

Denis Boudreau manages WebConforme, a business that works to provide consulting services on accessibility and standardization processes for Web sites development. After 4 years spent as chair of W3Québec, he was part of the founding of Coopérative AccessibilitéWeb (Web Accessibility Coop), for which he now acts has director and expert. At the international level, he is a member and invited expert to the HTML Working Group of W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and of some working groups of ISO (the International Standards Organization) on topics such as interface accessibility . He is chair of the board of Communautique, an organization that has the mission to facilitate the appropriation of information technologies by the people.  He participates in a working group on Online democracy, CEDEL (comité d'étude sur la démocratie en ligne), formed by experts interested in the social repercussions of the online governance project in Québec.

 

Bowden, Caspar

Caspar Bowden leads the privacy pillar of the Trustworthy Computing initiative across Europe, Middle-East and Africa for Microsoft. His goal is to ensure that users of Microsoft products and services are in control of their personal data and that fair information practices are respected. He is a specialist in data protection policy, privacy enhancing technology research, identity management and authentication. He was formerly director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, an independent think-tank that studies the interaction between computers and society, and promotes public understanding and dialogue between UK and European civil society and policy-makers in the fields of e-commerce, copyright, law enforcement and national security, e-government, cryptography and digital signatures. He was appointed expert adviser to the UK parliament for the passage of three bills concerning privacy issues, and was co-organizer of the influential Scrambling for Safety public conferences on UK encryption and surveillance policy. His previous career over two decades ranged from investment banking (proprietary trading risk-management for option arbitrage), to software engineering (graphics engines and cryptography), including work for Goldman Sachs, Microsoft Consulting Services, Acorn, Research Machines, and IBM.

 

Brandon, Travis

 

Brands, Stefan

Dr. Stefan Brands is the founder and president of Credentica, a Montreal-based startup that delivers innovative identity and access management solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in cryptography from Technical University of Eindhoven and a M.Sc. in mathematics from University of Utrecht. Stefan is an Adjunct Professor in modern cryptology at McGill's School of Computer Science. In this capacity he co-supervises several M.Sc. and PhD students who are conducting cryptographic research in the area of digital identity and privacy. Stefan is a principal member of "On The Identity Trail" as well as of ADAPID, a Belgian R&D consortium that is designing a next-generation ID chipcard. Prior to joining Credentica, Stefan was a senior cryptographer at two pioneering privacy technology companies: Zero-Knowledge Systems (anonymous data transport) and Digicash (electronic cash). Stefan served in 2004 and 2005 on the external advisory committee of the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and is the author of a book on multi-party secure electronic authentication, published by The MIT Press (Available for download from www.credentica.com/the_mit_pressbook.php.) In the early nineties, Stefan designed the core e-cash protocols of a chipcard system that was implemented and piloted by two European consortiums that included Gemplus, Siemens, and several European banks. Stefan maintains a personal blog on identity management and privacy at www.idcorner.org.

 

Bronskill, Jim

Jim Bronskill is a reporter in the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press news agency, specializing in security and intelligence, policing and justice-related issues including civil liberties and human rights. He has considerable experience using information laws to uncover stories. Before joining CP in November 2003, Jim was a reporter with Southam News (now CanWest News Service). He previously held various positions at CP and has also worked for the Ottawa Citizen, the Owen Sound Sun Times and TVOntario. Jim holds a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University, where he has been a sessional lecturer since 2003. He is a co-founder and steering committee member of Open Government Canada, a national coalition formed to guard against undue government secrecy. In 2002, he received two Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, including one for best overall investigative report, for a series he co-wrote with David Pugliese of the Citizen about the crackdown by security agencies on public dissent.

Jim Bronskill is a reporter in the Ottawa bureau of The Canadian Press news agency, specializing in security and intelligence, policing and justice-related issues including civil liberties and human rights. He has considerable experience using information laws to uncover stories. Before joining CP in November 2003, Jim was a reporter with Southam News (now CanWest News Service). He previously held various positions at CP and has also worked for the Ottawa Citizen, the Owen Sound Sun Times and TVOntario. Jim holds a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University, where he has been a sessional lecturer since 2003.  He is a co-founder and steering committee member of Open Government Canada, a national coalition formed to guard against undue government secrecy. In 2002, he received two Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, including one for best overall investigative report, for a series he co-wrote with David Pugliese of the Citizen about the crackdown by security agencies on public dissent.

 

Burkell, Jacquie

Jacquelyn Burkell is Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information and Media Studies.  Dr. Burkell's research focuses on the empirical study of the interaction between people and technology, with a particular emphasis on the role of cognition in such interactions. Specific aspects of this research include the impact of presentation on information use and understanding, the design of human-computer interfaces, and the social impact of technology. With respect to this latter topic, she is interested in the impact of computer mediation on communication and the perception of self. Much of this work focuses on anonymity in online communication, examining how the psuedonymity offered by online communication is experienced by online communicators, and how this experience changes communication behaviour and interpretation. Dr. Burkell is also involved in research on the credibility of online information and information sources. Part of this work will focus on intelligent agents and virtual representatives as information sources, examining whether the credibility of these sources is assessed according to the same criteria used to establish the credibility of human information sources.

Dr. Burkell teaches a variety of courses relevant to her research methodology expertise and her research interests. She teaches research methods at both the graduate and undergraduate level, with a focus on both qualitative and quantitative methods. In addition, she teaches courses on the social impact of technology, human-computer interface design and information design.

 

Cameron, Kim

Kim Cameron is Architect of Identity and Access in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, where he drives evolution of Active Directory, Federation Services, Identity Integration Services, CardSpace and Microsoft's other Identity Metasystem products.  Kim joined Microsoft in 1999 when it bought the ZOOMIT Corporation.  As VP of Technology at ZOOMIT, he had invented metadirectory technology and built the first shipping product. Before that he led ZOOMIT's development team in producing a range of SMTP, X.400, X.500, and PKI products.

Kim grew up in Canada, attending King's College at Dalhousie University and l'Universite de Montreal. He has won a number of industry awards, including Digital Identity World's Innovation Award (2005), Network Computing's Top 25 Technology Drivers Award (1996) and MVP (Most Valuable Player) Award (2005), and Network World's 50 Most Powerful People in Networking (2005).  Kim blogs at identityblog.com, where he published the Laws of Identity.

 

Chan, Yim

Yim Chan is the Global Privacy Executive for the IBM Corporation as well as the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) for IBM Canada.  Her responsibilities include developing and implementing programs at the enterprise level for IBM's global privacy management system and embedding privacy into relevant business processes.  In her capacity as the CPO for IBM Canada, Yim is responsible for guiding information handling policies and practices across IBM Canada.  Managing both roles reflects the increasing complexity of the privacy requirements demanded of globally-integrated organizations such as IBM and the steps that must be taken to maintain recognition as a technology and business leader.

Yim is a member of the Canadian and U.S. CPO Councils and is on the Advisory Board for the International Association of Privacy Professionals' (IAPP) which developed the Canadian certification program for privacy professionals (CIPP/C).  She is a regular speaker at privacy-related conferences and is sought after for privacy related interviews.

During her 28 years with IBM, Yim has held several middle management and executive positions in software compiler development, industry solutions, and was formerly the CIO for IBM Canada. Her career at IBM has also included international assignments to the Far East. Yim holds two patents for a Business Application Dialogues Architecture and Toolset in the privacy assessment environment and has obtained CIPP/C certification.

Yim graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Mathematics/Computer Science degree and earned a Master's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.  She has participated in the Women in Technology mentoring program in the Greater Toronto Area.

 

Chandler, Jennifer

Jennifer Chandler is Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
Jennifer Chandler joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 2002, where she is currently teaching 'tort law' and 'technoprudence-legal theory in the information age'.  The overarching theme of Professor Chandler's research is law, science and technology, particularly with respect to the social and environmental effects of emerging technologies and the interaction of emerging technologies with law and regulation.
In addition to work fitting within this broad theme, Professor Chandler has also written extensively in the areas of cybersecurity and cybertorts.  Other recent articles have addressed the adequacy of the Canadian regulation of GMOs, pharmacists and conscientious objection, the ethics of non-financial incentives to donate organs, and liability for online reputation systems.

 

Chartrand, Monique

Monique Chartrand is the Director General of Communautique, a non profit organization in Montreal dedicated to fostering the appropriation of information and communications technologies (ICTs).   Communautique offers organizations, in Montreal and in the regions, a wide spectrum of training activities. These training activities aim to enable community groups, community workers and citizens to make strategic use of the information highway.

Ms. Chartrand holds a BA in Sexology from the University of Québec in Montréal. She also has some background training in specialized education and is currently pursuing her masters degree at the University of Montréal. She has many years of experience in social intervention and popular education in community groups.

 

Chester, Jeffrey

CDD founder and executive director, has been working on public-interest electronic media issues for more than twenty years.  His book Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, was published in January 2007 by The New Press.  In 1992, he co-founded the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Center for Media Education (CME) and was a co-founder of the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable.  In 1996, Newsweek magazine named him one of the Internet's fifty most influential

people. He is credited with helping to frame the debate and for uncovering key industry documents that helped expose the cable industry's plans for the Internet (the network neutrality issue).  At CME, he led the campaign which led to the passage of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.  In 2001, he was awarded a prestigious

Public Interest Pioneer Grant from the Stern Family Fund.

 

Prior to his media policy career, Jeff was a psychiatric social worker, investigative journalist, and a documentary filmmaker. His work has appeared on PBS, NPR and in many print publications. He also co-led the successful effort that resulted in the Congressional creation of the Independent Television Service. Jeff was also a co-founder of the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression, an artists rights advocacy group. He received his MSW in Community Mental Health from UC Berkeley in 1978 and his BA in psychology from California State University, San Francisco in 1975.

 

Clement, Andrew

Andrew Clement joined FIS in 1989 after teaching computer science at York University for five years. He is Director of the Collaborative Graduate Program in Knowledge Media Design and holds a status cross-appointment with Computer Science. His research interests are in the social implications of information/ communications technology and human-centered systems development. His published work covers such areas as: computer supported cooperative work; participatory design; workplace surveillance; privacy; women, work and computerization; end user computing; and the 'information society' more generally. His current and recent research has focused on public information policy, internet use in everyday life, digital identity constructions, public participation in information/communication infrastructure development, and community networking.

 

Cohen, Stanley

Stanley A. Cohen is Senior General Counsel with the Department of Justice (Canada) in its Human Rights Law Section.   He has had a varied career as an advisor to government in the areas of criminal justice and national security policy, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  His duties involve his advising Ministers and senior government officials on legal policy, litigation and issues relative to the Charter and the justice system, and appearing before parliamentary committees on legislative reform.  Mr. Cohen was extensively involved in providing Charter advice pertaining to the policy development process and the drafting of the Anti-terrorism Act as well as other national security policy development initiatives, including the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, and the replacement of the Official Secrets Act with the Security of Information Act.    Mr. Cohen was the 2006 recipient of the Department of Justice's John Tait Award, a signal honor recognizing the individual who best exemplifies the highest standards of ethical, professional conduct and competence, and demonstrates the values of service to the Canadian public and government in the discharge of his or her duties. 

A member of the Manitoba Bar since 1972, he is the author of numerous widely-cited articles on the criminal justice system and human rights, as well as three texts - Privacy, Crime and Terror: Legal Rights and Security in a Time of Peril; Invasion of Privacy: Wiretapping and Criminal Investigation in Canada; and Due Process of Law: the Canadian System of Criminal Justice.   

Mr. Cohen is a former academic and law professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University, and he formerly directed research for nearly a decade at the Law Reform Commission of Canada as the Coordinator of the Commission's Criminal Procedure Project.  He also served as Secretary to the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia between 1995 and 1997.

 

Coney, Lillie

Lillie Coney is Associate Director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. She is the Public Policy Coordinator for the National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI), and has testified before the Election Assistance Commission. She served on the Brennan Center Taskforces on the Security and Usability of Voting Systems. She also served as a member of the ACM Committee on Guidelines for Implementation of Voter Registration Databases. She participated as a contributor in the academic paper "Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems." She has written several law journal articles on voting, and contributed to the development of the Election Incident Reporting System. She is a contributor to the New York Times Best Seller, 50 Ways to Love Your Country. She serves in an advisory capacity to several organizations, which include Verified Voting, ACCURATE, Voting System Performance Rating, and Open Voting Consortium. She is also on the board of Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility.

 

Constable, Kris

 

Cooper, Alissa

Alissa Cooper is a Policy Analyst for the Center for Democracy and Technology. She is focusing initially on spyware issues, CDT's digital copyright project, and the network neutrality debate.

Alissa moved to the Washington area after completing her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science at Stanford University. There her work focused on computer security issues and their policy implications.

Danezis, George

Dr George Danezis is a post-doctoral visiting fellow at the Cosic group, KU Leuven, in Flanders, Belgium. He has been researching anonymous communications, privacy enhancing technologies, and traffic analysis since 2000, at KU Leuven and the University of Cambridge, where he completed his doctoral dissertation. His theoretical contributions to the PET field include the established information theoretic metric for anonymity and the study of statistical attacks against mix systems. On the practical side he is one of the lead designers of Mixminion, the next generation remailer, and has worked on the traffic analysis of deployed protocols such as SSL and Tor. He was the co-chair of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop in 2005 and 2006, he serves on the PET workshop board and has participated in multiple conference and workshop program committees in the privacy and security field.

 

Davidson, Robert A.

Mr. Robert A. Davidson joined the International Air Transport Association in November 1995, when he assumed the post of Assistant Director, Facilitation Services.  In this capacity, Mr. Davidson is responsible for maintaining general oversight of IATA's positions concerning facilitation and developing industry responses in respect of Customs and Immigration regulations applied to the clearance of both passengers and goods crossing international frontiers.  Prior to joining IATA, Mr. Davidson held a similar position with Continental Airlines in Houston, Texas, where his responsibilities included policy development, fine mitigation and headquarters support for 62 international airport operations located in 23 countries.

 

While cargo facilitation is included in his responsibilities, Bob continues to focus a significant percentage of his time on passenger facilitation-related issues.  In addition to working with airline facilitation representatives on a daily basis, he is a regular contributor to and participant in the work of various airline trade associations, as well as being active in the work of a number of intergovernmental organizations, including the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC), the European Commission, the World Customs Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization's facilitation activities.

 

Davies, Simon

Simon Davies is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost privacy advocates in the world, and is one of the pioneers of the international privacy arena.   His work in the fields of privacy, data protection, consumer rights and technology policy has spanned more than twenty years.  Simon is perhaps best known as the founder and Director of the watchdog group Privacy International, but is also an academic, consultant, journalist and author.  He is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he co-directs the Policy Engagement Network.

 

Donahue, Laura

Dr. Laura Donohue is a fellow at CISAC and at Stanford Law School's Center for Constitutional Law. Donohue's research focuses on national security and counterterrorist law in the United States, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Israel, and the Republic of Turkey. Prior to Stanford, Donohue was a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she served on the Executive Session for Domestic Preparedness and the International Security Program. In 2001 the Carnegie Corporation named her to its Scholars Program, funding the project, "Security and Freedom in the Face of Terrorism." At Stanford, Donohue directed a project for the United States Departments of Justice and State and, later, Homeland Security, on mass-casualty terrorist incidents. She has written numerous articles on counterterrorism in liberal, democratic states. Author of Counter-terrorist Law and Emergency Powers in the United Kingdom 1922-2000, she is completing a manuscript for Cambridge University Press analyzing the impact of British and American counterterrorist law on life, liberty, property, privacy, and free speech. Donohue obtained her AB (with honors, in philosophy) from Dartmouth College, her MA (with distinction, in war and peace studies) from University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, her PhD in history from the University of Cambridge, and her JD from Stanford Law School. 

Dumais, Michel

Edgar, Tim

Mr. Edgar is the Deputy for Civil Liberties in the Civil Liberties and Privacy Office of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which was created to unify U.S. intelligence efforts.  Mr. Edgar's job is to ensure that protections for civil liberties are incorporated in the policies and procedures of the intelligence community.

From May 2001 to June 2006, Mr. Edgar was the national security policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, where he testified before Congress, appeared in major media, and led national coalitions in defense of civil liberties in Congress and the Executive Branch in such areas as the USA PATRIOT Act, the 2004 Intelligence Reform Act, and the 2002 Homeland Security Act.

From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Edgar was a lawyer in the Washington, DC law firm Shea and Gardner.  Mr. Edgar was a law clerk for Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  He is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he served on the law review, and a 1994 summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.

 

Eckenwiler, Mark

Mark Eckenwiler is Associate Director of the Office of Enforcement Operations, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice.  He previously worked for 9 years in the Justice Department's Computer Crime Section, where he served as Deputy Chief from 2002 to 2005.

His areas of responsibility include federal wiretap law and online investigations. An Internet veteran for over two decades, Mark has written and spoken widely (including presentations at CFP in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002) on such issues as anonymity and free speech, e-mail stalking laws, Internet jurisdiction, electronic privacy, and the Fifth Amendment implications of cryptographic keys.  His articles have appeared in The National Law Journal, Legal Times, American Lawyer, Civil RICO Report, Internet World, and NetGuide. 

Mark holds an A.B. cum laude from Harvard in History and Literature and an M.A. in Classics (Ancient Greek) from Boston University.  After receiving his J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law, he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge I. Leo Glasser in the Eastern District of New York.  In 2002, he received the Exceptional Service Award - the Justice Department's highest honor - for his work on federal cybercrime legislation.

 

Engemann, Christoph

Christoph Engemann, lecturer & researcher at the Science, Technology and Society Program UT Austin, is a Non-Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society Stanford Law School and Research Fellow at the Department of Media Studies Bauhaus University Weimar.

He holds a Diploma in Psychology from the University of Bremen and is pursuing a Ph.D in Sociology at the Graduate School of Social Sciences University of Bremen.

 

Fewer, David

David Fewer is Staff Counsel at CIPPIC. David is an intellectual property and technology lawyer, and brings a decade of practice experience to CIPPIC's advocacy on intellectual property and technology files. Prior to joining CIPPIC, Mr. Fewer practised intellectual property and technology law with national firms in British Columbia and Ontario, and clerked with the Federal Court of Canada. He completed an LL.M. at the University of Toronto, where he wrote on intellectual property policy and the application of the Charter to copyright law. He has taught and written extensively on intellectual property and technology law issues, and is a frequent commentator in the media on such issues.

 

Fowler, Alex
Alex co-leads PricewaterhouseCoopers' privacy practice and has deep expertise in designing, assessing, and implementing compliance and governance strategies for privacy and security. Prior to joining PwC, Alex was a Senior Director with Zero-Knowledge Systems, an innovative software company providing privacy-enabling technologies and services. He began his career in science and technology policy with the American Association for the Advancement of Science where he managed projects on emerging ethical, legal, and social issues associated with information technology. He then joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation and led programmatic activities on privacy, cryptography, and intellectual property. Alex has authored numerous articles, is a frequent speaker and media commentator, and holds degrees from Brown University and George Washington University.

Fraser, Cynthia

Fu, Kevin

Kevin Fu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is the principal investigator of the RFID Consortium on Security and Privacy (RFID CUSP).  Kevin investigates the security and privacy of pervasive and invasive computation --- including RFID, implantable medical

devices, and file systems.  Kevin's contributions include key regression for efficient decentralized access control of storage; the SFS read-only file system for fast integrity-protected content distribution; proxy re-encryption file systems for managing

distributed access control; and the security analysis of RFID-enabled credit cards, Web authentication, and software updates.  Kevin received his M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and 2005 respectively, and his S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT in 1998.  He has served on numerous program committees of prestigious conferences in computer security and cryptography.  His research has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.  Kevin also holds a certificate of achievement in artisanal

bread making from the French Culinary Institute.

 

Gainer, Randy

Randy Gainer is a partner in the Seattle office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.  His practice emphasizes litigating disputes involving computer systems and advising businesses about data security and privacy issues, including compliance with U.S. national security laws.  He is co-counsel for the plaintiffs in ACLU v. National Security Agency.

 

Garfinkel, Simson

Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA., and a fellow at the Center for Research on Computation at Society at Harvard University. He is also the founder of Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that develops advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems.

Dr. Garfinkel has research interests in computer forensics, the emerging field of usability and security, information policy, and terrorism. He has actively researched and published in these areas for more than two decades.

Garfinkel writes a monthly column for CSO Magazine, for which he has been awarded four national journalism awards. Garfinkel is the author or co-author of fourteen books on computing, published by Addison-Wesley, IDG Books, MIT Press, O'Reilly and Associates, and Springer-Verlag. He is perhaps best known for his book Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. Garfinkel's most successful book, Practical UNIX and Internet Security (co-authored with Gene Spafford), has sold more than 250,000 copies in more than a dozen languages since the first edition was published in 1991.

Garfinkel received three Bachelor of Science degrees from MIT in 1987, a master's of science in journalism from Columbia University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2005.

 

Gauvin, Phil

 

Geist, Michael

Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law.  He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School.  Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law and was a member of Canada's National Task Force on Spam.  He is an internationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues with his regular column appearing in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and the BBC.  Dr. Geist is the editor of In the Public Interest:  The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published in 2005 by Irwin Law, the editor of several monthly technology law publications, and the author of a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues. Dr. Geist serves on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Expert Advisory Board and on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy's Review Panel. He has received numerous awards for his work including Canarie's IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada and he was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2003. More information can be obtained at http://www.michaelgeist.ca.

 

Giokas, Dennis

Dennis Giokas is the Chief Technology Officer for Canada Health Infoway and head of the Solution Architecture Group. In that capacity he is responsible for the overall electronic health record solution architecture Blueprint, IT security and privacy, and the Infoway Standards Collaborative. He plays a key role in defining the business and technical solutions architecture for Infoway's various EHR investment programs. Infoway's mission is to foster and accelerate the development and adoption of electronic health information solutions in Canada. Mr. Giokas has over 25 years of experience in the information management and information technology field and he has previously held executive positions at Sapient Corporation, most recently as Vice-President and Managing Director of its Canadian subsidiary. He has also consulted on IT strategy in a number of industries including healthcare, financial services, insurance and energy services. He has held several senior positions with Digital Equipment Corporation, including those of Consulting Engineer and Group Technical Director. He has served as a board director of COACH - Canada's health informatics association. Mr. Giokas also holds two patents for software innovations and has one industrial design patent. He holds a Master's of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. He was working on his Ph.D. in Music Theory when he got interested in computer science. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Boston University.

Giordano, Charles

Charles Giordano graduated with an Economics Degree from University of Toronto in 1983.  He joined the Toronto-Dominion Bank and helped launch the bank's discount brokerage division.  He joined Bell Canada in 1992 and has held various management functions in Sales, Marketing, Budgeting & Forecasting.  He currently leads the Privacy Marketing Strategy within Bell's Residential Division.  He now leads the RIM committee on developing Responsible marketing Practices.  He is also privacy advisor to the Association for the Advancement of Relationship Marketing and is a member of the Canadian Marketing Association's Customer Data Use & Collection working group.

 

Goldberg, Ian

Dr. Goldberg is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he is part of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) research group.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he co-founded that university's Internet Security, Applications, Authentication and Cryptography group.  From 1999 to 2006, he was Chief Scientist of Radialpoint (formerly known as Zero-Knowledge Systems), a company offering security and privacy technologies for Internet users.

 

Good, Nathan

 

Grimm, Eric

Eric C. Grimm is an attorney specializing in IT law.  Among his pro bono publico projects Mr. Grimm has worked with the EFF, and has assisted Hacktivismo to secure confirmation from the U.S. Department of Commerce to export software containing strong encryption algorithms without running afoul of regulations prohibiting the unlicensed export of certain "munitions."

 

Guerra, Robert

Robert Guerra is a leading privacy advocate based in Toronto, Canada. After working for several years in the medical research field, he now works with Human Rights NGOs to help them improve their information privacy and security practices. He is active within the international electronic privacy community, sitting on the board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). He has also been actively involved in all key meetings of the preparatory process of the UN World Summit on the Information Society, including as a panelist at the Pan European and Latin American Regional Meeting, and an NGO member of the Canadian delegation to the second preparatory meeting. Robert also sits on the advisory board of several non-profits, including Taking IT Global and the Vancouver Community Network.

 

Hammitt, Harry

Harry Hammitt is editor and publisher of Access Reports, a biweekly newsletter on the Freedom of Information Act and open government laws and policies. He also edits Canada and Abroad, a monthly newsletter covering access and privacy issues in Canada.

He has written and lectured extensively on access and privacy issues in both the United States and Canada. He is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals and currently serves on its board. He also serves on the board of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government. He was inducted into the FOI Hall of Fame at the Freedom Forum in Arlington, Virginia, in 2001.

 

Harper, Jim

Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute

As director of information policy studies, Jim Harper focuses on the difficult problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. Harper is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. His work has been cited by USA Today, the Associated Press, and Reuters. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CBS, and MSNBC, and other media. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Administrative Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Recently, Harper wrote the book Identity Crisis: How Identification Is Overused and Misunderstood. Harper is the editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think tank devoted exclusively to privacy, and he maintains online federal spending resource WashingtonWatch.com. He holds a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law.

 

Hasbrouck, Edward

Edward Hasbrouck is a travel industry insider, expert, author, journalist, consumer advocate, and consultant to the Identity Project on travel- related human rights, civil liberties, and privacy issues. Edward has more than 15 years of experience with offline and online travel agencies specializing in complex international airfares.  His work has

included managing relations with computerized reservations systems (CRS's), and coordinating software and business processes to integrate reservations and pricing data from multiple CRS's and other sources, including airlines and agencies in the USA, the EU, and around the world.

 

Edward broke the story that JetBlue Airways had secretly provided its entire archive of reservation data to a government contractor, and won a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for investigative reporting self-published on his Web site (Hasbrouck.org), including his FAQ on "What's in a PNR?".

 

Edward writes one of the leading travel blogs, and has contributed articles on travel and privacy to Privacy Journal and Privacy International's "Privacy and Human Rights" yearbook. The 4th edition of Edward's acclaimed guide to independent international

travel, "The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World", is scheduled for publication later this year.  Edward is also the author of "The Practical Nomad Guide to the Online Travel Marketplace".

 

Herriges, Guy

Guy Herriges is the Manager of Access and Privacy, Office of the Corporate Chief Strategist, Management Board Secretariat. Guy joined the Government of Ontario as a Policy Advisor in 1988, and has over 14 years of experience in the area of access to information and privacy. During his time at Management Board Secretariat Guy also managed the development and implementation of Ontario's Lobbyists Registration Act. Prior to joining Management Board Secretariat, Guy was the Assistant Director of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission. He is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with degrees in philosophy and law.

The Access and Privacy Office at Management Board Secretariat provides policy advice and support to the Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet in his role as the minister responsible for Ontario's public sector freedom of information and privacy legislation. The Office also advises and supports Ontario government ministries/agencies and municipalities and local boards throughout Ontario on freedom of information and privacy matters.

 

Hodgins, Ross

Ross Hodgins is Director/Coordinator of the Access to Information and Privacy Division in Health Canada.  He is responsible for establishing a centre of expertise within the Department and for collaborating with representatives from the health sector to advance the protection of privacy and mitigate privacy risks.  In addition, he manages the operational unit that responds to access to information and privacy requests. 

Prior to working at Health Canada, Ross was a Senior Privacy Advisor at the Treasury Board Secretariat.  During his career at the Secretariat he developed several information management, communication, access to information and privacy policies.  In the privacy field, he implemented government-wide policies and guidelines related to data matching, control of the Social Insurance Number and privacy impact assessments.  He also established the Info Source program which is a series of publicly-available databases and publications describing the Government of Canada, its programs, services and information holdings. Ross has a Masters of Library and Information Sciences from the University of Western Ontario.

Hofmann, Marcia

Marcia Hofmann is an EFF staff attorney based in Washington, DC, where she focuses on government transparency and civil liberties issues. Along with her colleague David Sobel, she established EFF's FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government (FLAG) Project. Prior to joining EFF, Marcia was Director of the Open Government Project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where she spearheaded EPIC's efforts to learn about emerging policies in the post-9/11 era and was lead counsel in several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits. Documents made public though her work have been reported by the New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio, Fox News, and CNN, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Dayton School of Law and Mount Holyoke College.

Hoofnagle, Chris

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.  Among his recent academic publications are "Identity Theft: Making the Known Unknowns Known (Forthcoming Harvard JOLT), "Putting Identity Theft on Ice: Freezing Credit Reports to Prevent Lending to Impostors" in

Securing Privacy in An Internet Age (forthcoming Stanford 2006), "A Model Regime of Privacy Protection" in the University of Illinois Law Review (with J. Solove, 2006) and "Big Brother's Little Helpers: How ChoicePoint and Other Commercial Data Brokers Collect, Process, and Package Your Data for Law Enforcement" in the North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation (2004).  He is admitted to

practice law in California and the District of Columbia.

 

Hosein, Gus

Gus Hosein is a Senior Fellow with Privacy International, where he leads work on anti-terror policies and international policy dynamics.  He is also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he co-directs the Policy Engagement Network.  Finally, he is a Visiting Scholar at the American Civil Liberties Union, working on the Technology and Liberty Project.  For more information please see http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hosein

 

Howell, Kim

Kim Howell is a Senior Privacy Strategist for Microsoft and manages the MSN and Windows Live Privacy Team. She has been working at Microsoft for 7 years, 5 of those in privacy. Her team is responsible for reviewing all MSN and Windows Live products, services and marketing campaigns for privacy compliance.  She is a two time recipient of the MS Trustworthy Computing Privacy Excellence Award for her work on the Microsoft Privacy Standard for Development and the Microsoft Online Privacy Statement.

 
Prior to working at Microsoft Kim worked in both the financial and publishing industries. She has a Masters Degree in Applied Statistics and worked for 6 years as a Database Marketing Manager building statistical models for targeting of direct mail campaigns.
 

Jamieson, Dave

Dave Jamieson is a freelance writer living in Washington, DC. Until recently he covered criminal justice as a staff writer at the Washington City Paper. He's now working on a book about the history of baseball cards to be published by Grove/Atlantic.

 

Jones, Douglas K.

Doug Jones is a computer scientist at the University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on computer security, particularly electronic voting. He has also contributed to the field of computer architecture, including an implementation of a one instruction set computer.

Jones' involvement with electronic voting research began in 1994, when he was appointed to the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines and Electronic Voting Systems. He chaired the board from 1999 to 2003, and has testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, the United States House Committee on Science and the Federal Election Commission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Jones - _note-2 on voting issues. In 2005 he participated as an election observer for the presidential election in Kazakhstan. He is currently a member of the ACCURATE electronic voting project.

Jones received a B.S. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1980 respectively.

 

Jorgensen, Rikke Frank

Rikke Frank Jørgensen is Senior Adviser at The Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen. Her main focus is how technology may promote or threaten human rights standards, especially in the field of privacy and freedom of expression. She was adviser to the Danish governmental delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2003-2005) and is co-chair of WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus. She is on the board of Danish NGO Digital Rights and of European Digital Rights (EDRI), and is an Advisory Board member of Privacy International. From 1995 to 2000, she worked as a special adviser in the Danish Ministry of Science and Technology dealing with national ICT policy. She has been a member of several governmental committees, and has authored a number of presentation and articles on the interface between technology human rights. One of her recent publications is "Human Rights in the Global Information Society" (MIT Press 2006). Rikke holds a MA in Information Science and a European Master in Human Rights and Democratization. She has just started her doctoral thesis on "The Internet as a democratic game changer?"

 

Kaiser, Michael

Michael Kaiser is the Director of Programs at the National Center for Victims of Crime. Mr. Kaiser joined the staff of the National Center in 2001, and currently oversees the Teen Victim Project, and the Stalking Resource Center. The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nations leading victim advocacy organization. Mr. Kaiser has worked in the area of victim assistance since 1983. For 15 years he worked at Safe Horizon (formerly Victim Services) in New York, where he held a variety of senior staff positions, including Associate Director for Development and External Affairs and Associate Director for Administration. Safe Horizon is the nations largest direct service organization serving victims with over 750 employees in more than 60 criminal justice and community based programs throughout New York City serving over 200,000 crime victims a year.

 

Katz, Eddan

Eddan Katz is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School. He has written articles and teaches in the areas of cyberlaw, intellectual property, telecommunications, and bioethics. He also wrote the hypertext poem Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, which has since been made into a T-shirt through the public domain license under which it was released.
Eddan received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC, Berkeley in 2002, with a Certificate in Law and Technology and honors in Intellectual Property Scholarship. He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC, Berkeley in 2002-3; and a Resident Fellow with the ISP in 2003-4. Eddan received his B.A. in philosophy from Yale in 1997.

 

Keisling, Mara

Mara Keisling is the founding Executive Director of NCTE. A Pennsylvania native, Mara came to Washington after co-chairing the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition. Mara is a transgender-identified woman who also identifies as a parent and a Pennsylvanian. She is a graduate of Penn State University and did her graduate work at Harvard University

in American Government. She has served on the board of Directors of Common Roads, an LGBTQ Youth Group, and on the steering committee of the Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition. Mara has almost twenty-five years of professional experience in social marketing and opinion research.

 

Kerr, Ian

Prior to his appointment to the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 2000, Ian Kerr held a joint appointment in the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Information & Media Studies and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. Professor Kerr currently teaches a graduate seminar in the LLM concentration in law, and in the areas of moral philosophy and applied ethics, internet and ecommerce law, contract law and legal theory.

In 2001, Professor Kerr was awarded the Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology. His current program of research includes two large projects: (i) On the Identity Trail, supported by one of the largest ever grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, focusing on the impact of information and authentication technologies on our identity and our right to be anonymous; and (ii) An Examination of Digital Copyright, supported by a large private sector grant from Bell Canada and the Ontario Research Network in Electronic Commerce, focusing on various aspects of the current effort to reform Canadian copyright legislation, including the implications of such reform on fundamental Canadian values including privacy and freedom of expression.

Dr. Kerr is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Academic Coordinating Committee of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, the Centre for Ethics and Values, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Uniform Law Commission of Canada's Special Working Group on Electronic Commerce. He is an associate editor of Kluwer's Electronic Commerce Research Journal, a guest editor for Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (MIT Press), and sits as a member on the Advisory Board of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and on the Advisory Board of Butterworths' Canadian Internet and E-Commerce Law Newsletter. He is also co-author of Managing the Law (Prentice Hall), a business law text used by thousands of students each year at universities across Canada.

 

Knight, Allison

Director, Privacy and Human Rights Project.

Allison Knight is EPIC Staff Counsel and a law graduate of the University of Western Ontario. She articled with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, where she completed rotations in litigation, policy, tribunal adjudication, and health privacy law. She has worked with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and has written articles for the Ontario Bar Association on civil liberties and human rights. She recently completed a manual on Canadian open government laws. Her current work focuses on international privacy law and developments.

 

Kosseim, Patricia

Patricia Kosseim is General Counsel at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). She provides legal advice on a broad range of policy and legislative initiatives; represents OPC before Federal Court and Parliamentary Committees; directs legal research on emerging privacy issues; and works collaboratively with stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions and sectors.

Before joining OPC, Patricia spent five years at the Ethics Office of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, leading initiatives aimed at: developing health policy from an ethical, legal and social perspective; promoting a culture of ethics and integrity in health research; and strengthening Canada's health research capacity in areas of ethics, law and social sciences. During that period, Patricia was temporarily seconded for a few months to Canada Health Infoway Inc. to contribute her legal and privacy expertise as part of a team of expert consultants advising the organization on its inaugural business plan to develop pan-Canadian, electronic health record systems.

Prior to joining the public service in Ottawa, Patricia practiced in Montreal for over six years with a major national law firm in areas of human rights, health law, labor and employment law, and professional regulation/liability.

Patricia is a member of the Quebec and Canadian Bar Associations since 1993. She obtained degrees in Business (B.Com '87) and Law (B.C.L. / LL.B. '92) from McGill University, as well as a Master's Degree in Medical Law and Ethics (M.A.'94) from King's College in London, U.K.

 

Landau, Susan

Susan Landau is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where she concentrates on the interplay between security and public policy. Before joining Sun, Landau was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University. She and Whitfield Diffie have written /Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, /a participant in the 2006 ITAA study on security risks of applying the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to Voice over IP, and lead author on the 1994 ACM study on cryptography policy. She is a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board and she maintains researcHers, a mailing list for women computer science researchers and the Booklist, a list of computer science books by women computer scientists. She received her BA from Princeton, her MS from Cornell, and her PhD from MIT.

 

Lawson, Philippa

Philippa Lawson is Executive Director - Canadian Internet Policy & Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC).  Before joining the University of Ottawa as Executive Director of the newly formed Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) in 2003, Pippa Lawson was senior counsel at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), where she practiced consumer advocacy and administrative law for twelve years. PIAC is an Ottawa-based organization that represents the interests of under-represented individuals and groups on issues of broad public concern. Pippa has a Master's degree from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (1986) and a Law degree from Queen's University (1989). At PIAC, Pippa led consumer interventions in all major telecommunications proceedings before the Canadian regulator since 1991. She also acted for consumer groups in regulatory matters before the Ontario Energy Board, and represented various public interest parties before the Federal and Supreme Courts of Canada on matters ranging from the abandonment of railway lines to voting rights. At CIPPIC, Pippa has focused on issues involving new technologies and copyright, privacy and consumer protection law. Her areas of expertise are telecommunications regulation, privacy and consumer protection in electronic commerce.

As a representative of the consumer interest on privacy issues before policy and law-making bodies, Pippa is highly qualified to identify and assess privacy issues arising from new technologies, laws and business practices.

 

Lenczner, Michael

Michael Lenczner develops community-oriented ICT infrastructure for healthier communities. He has been working in community ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) since 1998 and has been a partner or researcher in related academic groups since 2003. He is the co-founder of Ile Sans Fil and CivicAccess and he has been acontributor to the Free/Libre/Open software projects WifiDog and HAL since their inception.  Michael presents frequently in North American and Europe on the topic of community ICT. With over 36,000 users (800 per day) and 130 hotspots, Ile Sans Fil is one of the world's top community wireless networking (CWN) groups. The software, Wifidog, is being used by over 30 communities and businesses across 4 continents.  ISF is a volunteer-run organization with the involvement over 70 citizens since 2003.

   

Leuprecht, Peter

Peter Leuprecht, in 1958-1961 was Assistant lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Innsbruck.  In 1961-1997 he was an official in the Secretariat General of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France); 1976-1980 Secretary of the Committee of Ministers; 1980-1993 Director of Human Rights; elected Deputy Secretary-General in 1993; he left his post before the end of his term because of disagreement with dilution of Council of Europe standards. 

Professor Leuprecht has taught at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy (France) and at the European Academy of Law in Florence (Italy).  Author of numerous publications in the field of international law and human rights, he was in  1997-1999 Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University and at the Département des sciences juridiques de l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and advisor to the Canadian Department of Justice.  From 1999 to 2003 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law of McGill University. Presently he is the Director of the Montreal Institute of International Studies and Professor at the Département des sciences juridiques de l'UQAM. 

He was awarded the "Prix du Civisme Européen" in 1991, and was a   member of a committee of four "Sages" which prepared a human rights Agenda for the European Union. In 2000-2005 he acted as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for human rights in Cambodia.  He received the Human Rights Award of the Lord Reading Law Society in 2001. 

 

Lin, Herb

Herbert Lin is senior scientist and senior staff officer at the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB), National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he has been the study director for major projects on public policy and information technology. These studies, published by the National Academy Press, include a 1991 study on the future of computer science (/Computing the Future/), a 1996 study on national cryptography policy (/Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society/), a 1999 study of Department of Defense systems for command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence (/Realizing the Potential of C4I: Fundamental Challenges/), and a 2000 study on workforce issues in high-technology (/Building a Workforce for the Information Economy/). Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986 to 1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He also has significant expertise in math and science education. He received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1979.  Avocationally, he is a long-time folk and swing dancer and a poor magician. Apart from his CSTB work, he is published in cognitive science, science education, biophysics, and arms control and defense policy.

 

Lucock, Carole

On the Identity Trail Project Manager, University of Ottawa.  Carole Lucock was Senior Legal Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer with the Canadian Medical Association, a not-for-profit corporation where she has acted as counsel for 15 years. During her tenure with CMA, in addition to corporate legal work, Carole worked on numerous health and medical profession policy files and was very active in matters concerning health information privacy. While at CMA Carole instituted an articling program and has worked with numerous articling students during the course of their training. Carole obtained her LL.B from Queens University and recently completed her LL.M, with a concentration in law and technology, at the University of  Ottawa. She began her LL.D at the University of Ottawa in September 2005. Her research interests include the intersection of privacy, anonymity and identity, and the potential distinctions between imposed versus assumed anonymity. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Carole worked for a number of years as a high school teacher in England, where she taught science, social science and physical education.

 

Madsen, Paul

Paul Madsen has served in various design, chairing, editing, education, and marketing roles for a number of XML-based security standards, including OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OASIS Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML), OASIS Digital Signature Services (DSS), and Liberty Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF). He works in NTT's Information Sharing Platform Laboratory and represents NTT in the Liberty Alliance, an industry initiative for federated identity on the
Web, where he Co-Chairs the Technology Expert Group. He holds an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Carleton University and the University of Western Ontario respectively. He blogs at connectid.blogspot.com

 

Magnet, Shoshana

Shoshana Magnet is a PhD candidate, SSHRC doctoral fellow, and video artist at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her undergraduate degree from McMaster University in Arts and Science, and her Master's degree from the University of have screened at festivals in New York, Toronto, and the Czech Republic. Her published work has appeared in The Journal of Communication Inquiry, Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, Qualitative Toronto in Sociology and Equity Studies. Her videos Inquiry, Atlantis and New Media & Society .

 

Maher, David

David W. Maher is Senior Vice President - Law and Policy of Public Interest Registry, a nonprofit corporation responsible for management of the registry of the .ORG top level domain. From 1999 until 2002, he was Vice President - Public Policy of the Internet Society. In 2002, he became founding Chairman of the Board of Public Interest Registry, and served in that capacity until August, 2004.  Mr. Maher is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in intellectual property and entertainment law.  Mr. Maher was General Counsel to the Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois, Inc. for over 20 years and was the recipient of the Bureau's Torch of Integrity Award in 1999.

 

In 1996, as a well-regarded authority on Internet domain names, Mr. Maher was asked by the Internet Society to serve on the 11 member International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC).  The IAHC developed proposals that included, for the first time, provisions for expeditious resolution of disputes with "cyber-squatters".  These proposals were later adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and now form the nucleus of the ICANN Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) which provides a global arbitration and mediation system for trademark-domain name disputes.  Mr. Maher is a member of the WIPO Arbitration & Mediation Center Panel of Neutrals.

 

Mr. Maher currently serves as a member of the Visiting Committee to the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.  He is a member of the American Law Institute and has lectured and written articles on the Internet, intellectual property and communications law. 

 

Matheson, David 

David Matheson is a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Philosophy at Carleton University.  David received his PhD in philosophy from Brown University in 2003.  As one of the philosophers associated with On the Identity Trail, he is especially interested in the conceptual and moral issues that surround the project's overall theme.

Among the specific topics that David has written about are privacy and knowableness, anonymity and responsible testimony, layperson authentication of contested experts, privacy and personal security, the nature of personal information, and the importance of privacy for friendship.

 

Marzouki, Meryam

Meryem Marzouki is a Senior researcher with the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS), currently with the Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6). She holds a PhD in Computer Science and an Habilitation à diriger des recherches, both from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble. In 2002, she started the PolyTIC research activity within LIP6, dealing with relationships between ICTs, public policies and the public space following a multi-disciplinary approach. Her current research interests include Internet governance and the transformation of the rule of law, privacy and personal data protection issues and usages in mobile and broadband communications. Since 1996, Meryem Marzouki has also been an activist for the promotion of human rights in the information society; she is the president of the French NGO IRIS and has co-chaired the WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus. She serves on the board of the European Digital Rights (EDRI) association, which she represents at the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society. Meryem Marzouki is the author of numerous publications and talks on Internet governance, human rights and democracy. For more information : http://www-polytic.lip6.fr, http://www.iris.sgdg.org, http://www.edri.org.

 

Maxwell, Elliot

Elliot E. Maxwell advises clients on strategic issues involving the intersection of business, technology, and public policy in the Internet and E-commerce domains. He is a Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University, and Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of the Pennsylvania State University.  He also advises EPCglobal, the entity implementing the Electronic Product Code version of radio frequency identification (RFID).

From 1998 until 2001, Maxwell served as Special Advisor for the Digital Economy to U.S. Secretary of Commerce William Daley and U. S. Secretary of Commerce Norm Mineta, as principal advisor to the Secretary on the Internet and E-commerce. He coordinated the Commerce Department's efforts to establish a legal framework for electronic commerce, and analyze the impact of electronic commerce on all aspects of the economy.  He was a founding member of the Federal Interagency Working Group on Electronic Commerce.  After leaving the government he was Senior Fellow for the Digital Economy and Director of the Internet Policy Project for the He served at the Federal Communications Commission as Special Assistant to the Chairman, Deputy Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy, and Deputy Chief of the Office of Science and Technology.  Maxwell also worked for the U.S. Senate as Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities.  Maxwell graduated from Brown University and Yale University Law School.

 

McCammon, Stephen

Stephen McCammon is lawyer in the Legal Services Department at the Office of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) where he works on issues relating to access to information and the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information.  The IPC is an independent officer of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario whose mandate is to provide an independent review of government decisions and practices concerning access and privacy.

Since joining the IPC in 2004, a critical component of his work has been to brief the Commissioner on law enforcement and national security matters as well as to develop and draft IPC submissions in response to matters such as: Canada's proposed Passenger Protect Program (January 10, 2007); the police retention of fingerprints and other personal information following a non-conviction disposition of criminal charges (February 28, 2007); the "Lawful Access" Proposals (April 21, 2005); and the Anti-Terrorism Act Review (February 28, 2005).

 

Prior to arriving at the IPC, Stephen worked for 9 years as Counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association on issues relating to privacy, transparency, and civil liberties, the relationship between the individual and the state, and the scope of police powers. 

 

McKinnon, Casey

Producer, Galacticast and Kitkast
Casey McKinnon is a new media producer and actress who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has worked and appeared on two popular internet TV shows: Galacticast and Kitkast. Her work has been documented in The Hollywood Reporter, BBC News, Rolling Stone Magazine and The Guardian, among others. Her recent work on Galacticast has also garnered five Vloggie awards: favorite fictional entertainment, favorite collaboration, favorite web site design, and two awards for special effects.

McKinnon graduated from McGill University in East Asian Studies and worked as a diplomat's assistant before founding new media production company 8Bit Brownies, Inc. with her life partner Rudy Jahchan.. In addition to acting, she enjoys editing and working on special effects.

 

McSherry, Corynne

Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation

J.D., Stanford Law School, Ph.D. U.C. San Diego

Ms. McSherry specializes in intellectual property and First Amendment litigation and advocacy, particularly defending against abuses of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to shut down free speech online.  While at EFF, her cases have included MoveOn.org et al. v. Viacom International (DMCA abuse); Diehl v. Crook (DMCA abuse); and Ricciuti et al v. Sony BMG (class action based on music label's use of DRM that introduced security flaws into users' computers).  Prior to joining EFF, Ms. McSherry was a civil litigator at Bingham McCutchen, LLP and wrote Who Owns Academic Work?: Battling for Control of Intellectual Property (Harvard University Press, 2001).

 

Moll, Marita

Marita Moll is an educational researcher and free lance writer.  She is a member of the CRACIN project, a large research project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and her interests focus on education and community networking.

 

Mortensen, Kenneth 

Kenneth P. Mortensen is the Acting Chief of Staff for the Privacy Office at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. As the Acting Chief of Staff for the Privacy Office, Mr. Mortensen is responsible for privacy compliance oversight, privacy policy development, privacy review reporting, and privacy technology reviews.  Mr. Mortensen joined the Privacy Office in 2005 as the Senior Advisor for privacy policy dealing with information sharing, data security and integrity, and border protection.  Mr. Mortensen researches the privacy implications of new technologies, including biometrics, radio frequency identifiers, data mining, federated identity management, and metadata collection.

 

Mr. Mortensen was a founding and managing partner of the law firm Harvey & Mortensen, in Berwyn, Pennsylvania.  He was instrumental in founding the Philadelphia chapter of InfraGard, a non-profit corporation associated with the Philadelphia Division of the FBI dedicated to providing cooperation between private industry and law enforcement in the defense of infrastructure components.  Mr. Mortensen was at Villanova University School of Law, where he taught information law and served as Director for the Center for Information Law and Policy, where he managed the Virtual Magistrate Project, the first online dispute resolution system, the Federal Web Locator, the initial comprehensive online directory for the U.S. federal government, and the Federal Court Locator, the original home page for U.S. federal judiciary opinions.

He earned his BSE in electrical and computer engineering from Drexel University and his joint JD/MBA from Villanova University. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars.

 

Murphy, Kiernan

 

Namgyal,Dhondup
Dhondup "Dhonam" Namgyal was born in Dharamsala, India. His parents fled from Tibet to India after the Chinese invasion in 1950 and began working with Tibetan Children's Village (TCV), a K to 12 educational institution for Tibetan children and refugees. Dhonam was educated at TCV in the commerce stream and went on to
Delhi University where he was awarded a BA in commerce. Upon graduation he attended Jetking technical institute where he received certification in networking and hardware engineering after a two year study program. Returning to Dharamsala, Dhonam
began working with the Tibetan community as a ICT volunteer, and has gone on to co-found the Tibetan Technology Center (TTC). The center is based on the campus of TCV and has developed an internationally recognized wireless mesh network in the Dharamsala region. http://tibtec.org/

 

Neitzel, Udo

Udo Neitzel studies computer science at the University of Bremen, and is a member of the Chaos Computer Club.  His research includes privacy enhancing technologies and ID systems.

 

Neumann, Peter

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.

 

Nouvet, Marcel

Mr. Marcel Nouvet joined Health Canada as Assistant Deputy Minister, Information, Analysis and Connectivity Branch in February 2002.  In June 2005, he was named Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services Branch.  Mr. Nouvet enjoys new challenges and is first and foremost, results oriented.  Prior to his appointment at Health Canada, Mr. Nouvet was Chief Human Resource Officer at the Treasury Board Secretariat.  Before that, he held the positions of Assistant Deputy Minister, Systems and Assistant Deputy Minister, Financial and Administrative Services, Human Resources and Development Canada.  Mr. Nouvet holds a Masters Degree in French Literature from the University of Manitoba.  For the past four years, Marcel's responsibilities have included privacy protection and, as a result, he had a key role in overseeing the development of a pan-Canadian framework for the protection of personal health information and for supporting the implementation of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act in the health sector.

 

O'Higgins, Brian

Mr. O'Higgins is a seasoned professional in the security industry, and is best known for his role in introducing PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) technology and products to the security landscape. He is also a recognized speaker on IT and Internet security. Prior to joining Third Brigade, Mr. O'Higgins was the co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Entrust, a leading Internet Security company. While at Entrust he had overall responsibility for the technology vision and direction for the company. He was previously with Nortel where he established the Secure Networks group in 1993, and was instrumental in spinning-out this group as an independent company, Entrust.  Prior to this, Mr. O'Higgins was with Bell-Northern Research (BNR) where he was involved in a variety of technology development programs including public key security systems, technology for new telephone products, in-building wireless communications systems and high-performance computing architectures for digital telephone switches.  Mr. O'Higgins' current list of affiliations includes advisory board positions with Defence R&D Canada, Information Technology Association of Canada, Communications and Information Technology Ontario, Algonquin College, and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. In addition, he currently serves on the boards of Recognia and Fischer International.

 

Oscapella, Eugene

Eugene Oscapella is Barrister and Solicitor of Ottawa.   Mr. Oscapella completed undergraduate studies in economics at the University of Toronto and received his bachelor of laws degree from the University of Ottawa. He obtained his Master of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1980.

From 1980 to 81, Mr. Oscapella served as a commission counsel with the McDonald Commission of Inquiry into the RCMP.  From 1982 to 85, he was Director of Legislation and Law Reform for the Canadian Bar Association.  Since 1985, Mr. Oscapella has been an independent adviser on Canadian legislative and social policy issues.  For more than two decades he has also advised governmental and non-governmental organizations in Canada and abroad on a range of privacy issues. He is the principal author of the Privacy Commissioner's 1989 study, AIDS and the Privacy Act, its 1990 study, Drug Testing and Privacy, and its 1992 study, Genetic Testing and Privacy.

He is also a founding member of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy and a former chair of the policy committee of the Canadian Criminal Justice Association.  He lectures on drug policy in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.

 

Otis Brown, Glenn

Products Counsel, YouTube

Before becoming product counsel at Google, Brown served as the Executive Director of Creative Commons from Summer 2002 until spring 2005. Before that, he served as Assistant Director. Glenn is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a class on Creative Commons and free and open-source software licensing with Lawrence Lessig.

Before coming to Creative Commons, Glenn clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami, where he worked on the Wind Done Gone copyright appeal, among other cases. Glenn has also worked stints at The Economist's Washington D.C. bureau, reporting on general U.S. news during the 2000 elections, and at Digital Age, a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew Shapiro, where he was assistant producer for a season.

Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (B.A. 1996, summa) and Harvard Law School (JD, 2000, magna). In college, Glenn was awarded a national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study towards a career in public service. At Harvard, Glenn was a member of the Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where he organized "Signal or Noise?", a digital music conference and concert, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

 

Ozer, Nicole

Nicole Ozer is the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director at the ACLU of Northern California, working on the intersection of new technology, privacy, and free speech.

Nicole graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College, studied comparative civil rights history at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and earned her J.D. with a Certificate in Law and Technology from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California Berkeley. While attending Boalt Hall, Nicole was Executive Editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, served as co-president of her law class, was honored by the law school for excellence in clinical advocacy, and awarded the Young Bear Award by the University of California, Berkeley for service to the community.

Before joining the ACLU, Nicole was an intellectual property litigator at Morrison & Foerster LLP, worked on diverse civil liberties technology projects with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Boalt Hall, developed an award-winning youth volunteer program in Santa Clara County, and served as a staff member and intern for several local elected officials. Nicole was recognized by San Jose Magazine in 2001 for being one of 20 "Women Making a Mark" in Silicon Valley.    

 

Pacquin, Christian

Christian Paquin is Credentica's Chief Security Engineer. Christian has been specializing in information security for the last decade; prior to joining Credentica, he worked as a PKI specialist in an electronic signature company and as a security expert in a company providing privacy-enhancing technologies. Christian holds a M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Montreal, where he did research in the field of quantum cryptography.

 

Paque, Virginia

Virginia (Ginger) Paque was born in the United States, but has lived in Venezuela for the past 30 years. An educator and administrator by profession, she has 25 years experience in business and manufacturing systems consulting. Currently, she is a tutor with Diplo Foundation for the Spanish-English bilingual section of the Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme. She is a board member of the United Nations Association of Venezuela and the Venezuelan member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations Task Force on WSIS. She coordinates and facilitates a series of online Spanish language Human Rights courses for lawyers and other professionals.Two areas of particular interest are Spanish language online educational projects and the research and monitoring of e-voting as a controversial but inevitable development.

 

Peel, Deborah

Dr. Deborah Peel Is the founder of Patient Privacy Rights (formerly Appeal for Patient Privacy), established  to empower American citizens to protect and preserve their rights to medical privacy.

Dr. Peel has practiced 27 years in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. She graduated from the Univ. of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB, Galveston, TX) in 1974, at the age of 22, the youngest in her class. Dr. Peel was board certified in General Psychiatry in 1979, and graduated from the Dallas Psychoanalytic Institute in 1999. She was Chief of Psychiatry at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, TX, and ran a section of 100+ psychiatrists for eleven years

 

Péladeau, Pierrot

Jurist and specialist in social assessment of personal information systems, Pierrot Péladeau is visiting researcher the Centre for Bioethics of the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM) and associate researcher at CEFRIO, a public knowledge transfer centre in the field of informatics and organizations. He has worked on Informatics and Society issues since 1982 and in the Centre for Bioethics' Telehealth Ethics Programme since 1997. He has studied or assessed numerous personal information or transaction systems in various fields such as health care and social services, scientific research, banking, public administration, communication and public utilities.

 

He is co-author of the Identité piratée (Hijacked Identity) report [SOQUIJ, 1986] that lead to the adoption of the Quebec Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector [L.R.Q. c. P-39.1] in 1993. He acted as special advisor to the Advisory Council on Health Infostructure of the Canadian Minister of Health (1998-1999) and was a member of the Régie d'Assurance Maladie du Québec (RAMQ)'s advisory committee for the health smart card demonstration project in Laval (2000-2001). He recently co-authored Health Information Networking: Manual for the Management of Ethical and Social Issues [March, 2004, Centre for Bioethics, IRCM] and conducted a study on adequacy of e-government services in regard to individual social realities.

 

Perrin, Stephanie

Chair CFP2007

Stephanie Perrin is the Director of Integrity Policy and Risk Management, Integrity Branch, Service Canada.  She is the former Director of Research and Policy at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and the former Research Coordinator for the Anonymity Project led by Dr Ian Kerr of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.  She was prior to this a well known consultant in privacy and information policy  issues, president of her own company Digital Discretion Inc., providing advice to industry and government in the practical implementation of data protection policies and procedures. She is an active participant in policy discussions involving civil liberties, sat on the board of several domestic and international privacy organizations, and was a Senior Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Centre in Washington.

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.

Stephanie was instrumental in developing Canada's privacy and cryptography policies for over fifteen years. Formerly the Director of Privacy Policy for Industry Canada's Electronic Commerce Task Force, she led the legislative initiative at Industry Canada that resulted in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, privacy legislation that came into force in 2001.  She is the principal author of a text on the Act, published by Irwin Law.

 

Perry, Mark 

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Computer Science and the Faculty of Law at The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada; Director, Intellectual Property and Information Area of Concentration; Adjunct Professor of Law, Queensland University of Technology.  Professor Perry's research is focused on the nexus of science and law, and in the area of autonomic computing system development.  He has most recently published in the areas of digital rights management, copyright reform and software licensing automation. He holds grants from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, IBM, and the  Social Science and Humanities Research Council .  Prof. Perry has been invited by universities in Australia, India, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada to speak at research-intensive colloquia and classes, and he has been interviewed by the media around the world for his ideas on technology law issues. In addition to serving on the Executive of ACM SiGCAS, he is a Faculty Fellow at IBM's Center for Advanced Studies, Tremayne Lloyd Law Faculty Fellow, a Barrister and Solicitor of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and contributes to many review and editorial boards, and media publications.

 

Pierce, Trevor

 

Place, Janey

Janey Place is CEO of DigitalThinking, a business strategy, technology, innovation, and payment systems consulting company based in New York and Los Angeles. Prior to starting DigitalThinking in 2004, she was executive vice president of eCommerce Strategy for Mellon Financial Corporation, responsible for Mellon's eCommerce strategy and customer information management. She was president of MellonLab and a member of Mellon's Senior Management Committee. Formerly, she was the executive vice president for Bank of America's Strategic Technology Group, which was responsible for Internet initiatives, advanced technology research and development, and information technology architecture. Previously, Ms. Place was senior vice president in charge of Internet strategy and research and development at Wells Fargo Bank. She was information technology manager at Hughes Aircraft Company and served as corporate manager of Strategic Technology Planning for Tosco Corporation. Ms. Place also was a lecturer in systems and communication theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a published author of two books and many articles, editor of a communications magazine, producer and director of film and video programs, and a frequent speaker. She has served on a number of corporate boards and currently is a director for PortBlue, an information management company. Ms. Place earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. She holds a master's degree and a doctorate in systems theory and attended the Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles.

 

Polonetsky, Jules

As AOL's Chief Privacy Officer and SVP for Consumer Advocacy, Jules is responsible for ensuring that AOL's users can trust the company with their information and for educating employees about best practices for advertising, content, and product development.  Jules previously served for four years as Vice President, Integrity

Assurance, at America Online Inc.  The Integrity Assurance team was responsible for a wide range of consumer protection and risk managementissues for AOL's brands (America Online, AIM, Netscape, Compuserve, Mapquest, MoviePhone, Spinner, WinAmp, ICQ, Advertising.com) including privacy, advertising policy, content and community standards, product standards, parental controls, safety and accessibility for users with disabilities.

 

From March 2000 through April 2002, Jules was Chief Privacy Officer and Special Counsel at DoubleClick, the advertising and marketing technology company that at the time was the largest internet company in New York City. In that role, he worked with DoubleClick clients to institute and police their privacy policies and managed compliance with data protection requirements for DoubleClick subsidiaries world-wide. In his Special Counsel role, Jules oversaw DoubleClick's government affairs activities and consumer related advertising practices.

 

Ponemon, Larry

Dr. Larry Ponemon is the founder and leader of the Peppers & Rogers Group's Responsible Information Stewardship (RIS) practice, which is designed to assist companies align the information preferences of its key stakeholders-such as consumers, employees, shareholders and the general public-with business, data, and technology management practices within the organization.

Dr. Ponemon is also Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a "think tank" dedicated to advancing responsible information and privacy management practices for business and government. The subsequent synergy between the Ponemon Institute and Peppers & Rogers Group provides access to objective research, education and verification methods that will enable Peppers & Rogers Group to bring an unprecedented level of thought leadership to clients around the world.

 

Rahilly, Lyn

Lyn Rahilly is the Privacy Officer at the U.S. Terrorist Screening Center, which is part of the Department of Justice and administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Prior to joining the TSC, Ms. Rahilly served as the Assistant Chief Counsel of Information Law at the Transportation Security Administration.  Ms. Rahilly has also served as an ethics and information law attorney at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and as a litigator at the U.S. Department of Labor working on civil cases under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).  Ms. Rahilly has also worked as an attorney in the private sector. 

 

Rivest, Ron

Professor Rivest is the Viterbi Professor of Computer Science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  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 is a leader of its Cryptography and Information Security Group.  He is also a founder of RSA Data Security. (RSA was bought by Security Dynamics; the combined company has been renamed to RSA Security.) Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and network security, voting systems, and algorithms.  Professor Rivest is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the International Association for Cryptographic Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is also on the EPIC Advisory Board.  Together with Adi Shamir and Len Adleman, he has been awarded the 2000 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award and the Secure Computing Lifetime Achievement Award.  He has also received, together with Shamir and Adleman, the 2002 ACM Turing Award. Professor Rivest has received an honorary degree (the "laurea honoris causa") from the University of Rome. He is a Fellow of the World Technology Network and a Finalist for the 2002 World Technology Award for Communications Technology.  In 2005, he received the MITX Lifetime Achievement Award.  Professor Rivest is an inventor of the RSA public-key cryptosystem.  He has extensive experience in cryptographic design and cryptanalysis, and has published numerous papers in these areas. He has served as a Director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the organizing body for the Eurocrypt and Crypto conferences, and as a Director of the Financial Cryptography Association.  He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University in 1969, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974.  He has also worked extensively in the areas of computer algorithms, machine learning, and VLSI design.

Roschke, Guilherme

Guilherme is a visting Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center

 

Rotenberg, Marc

Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He is a founding board member and former Chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain. He is editor of "The Privacy Law Sourcebook" and co-editor (with Daniel J. Solove and Paul Schwartz) of "Information Privacy Law" (Aspen Publishing 2006). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduation from law school. He is the recipient of several awards, including the World Technology Award in Law.

 

Roundpoint, Russell 

Chief Administrative Officer of the Mohawk Council of Akwasasne Russell Roundpoint is the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the Mohawk Council of Akwasasne.   The CAO serves the Akwasasne community

in many ways; by supporting Council in their protection of community interest. The CAO routinely meets with Council, officials of other First Nations, officials of national & regional levels of Canadian government and with business affiliates of Council. This means that the CAO must remain vigilant for community or national trends that could impact on Council's work. The CAO is the principal, non-political, manager for Council. He supervises Department Directors of Community & Social Services, Education, Economic Development, Environment, Health, Housing, Justice, Public Safety, and Technical Services. He meets with them individually regarding specific issues and collectively to plan, monitor, or evaluate MCA's management strategies.

 

Rubin, Ken

Ken Rubin is Canada's most experienced freedom of information researcher, having established his career over twenty-five years ago prior to the passage of the federal legislation, and placed more than twenty thousand requests.

 

Ruffin, Oxblood

Oxblood Ruffin is a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) computer security group and Executive Director of Hacktivismo, a tactical programming unit within the cDc. Hacktivismo works internationally with human rights and democracy activists
operating from behind "national firewalls". From 1998 to date Hacktivismo has released circumvention technologies on the Internet and has advised NGOs, academic institutions, and government on best practices for securing their communications.
http://cultdeadcow.com

 

Schneier, Bruce

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," Schneier is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier. Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram, with over 130,000 readers. In its seven years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security. As head curmudgeon at the table, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from security stories that make the news. Regularly quoted in the media, Schneier has written op ed pieces for several major newspapers, and has testified on security before the United States Congress on many occasions.

 

Schultz, Jason

Jason Schultz is a Staff Attorney specializing in intellectual property and reverse engineering. He currently leads EFF's Patent Busting Project. Jason also teaches graduate classes on Cyberlaw at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and School of Information.  Prior to joining EFF, Jason worked at the law firm of Fish & Richardson, P.C., where he spent most of his time invalidating software patents and defending open source developers in law suits. While at F&R, he co-authored an amicus brief on behalf of the Internet Archive, Prelinger Archive and Project Gutenberg in support of Eric Eldred's challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Prior to F&R, Jason served as a law clerk to the Honorable D. Lowell Jensen and as a legal intern to the Honorable Ronald M. Whyte, both in the Northern District of California federal court system. During law school, Jason served as Managing Editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and helped found the Samuelson Clinic, the first legal clinic in the country to focus on high tech policy issues and the public interest. Jason also has undergraduate degrees in Public Policy and Women's Studies from Duke University.  He also has a personal blog at lawgeek.net.

 

Schwartz, Ari

Ari Schwartz is the Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Schwartz's work focuses on increasing individual control over personal and public information. He promotes privacy protections in the digital age and expanding access to government information via the Internet. He regularly testifies before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on these issues. Schwartz also leads the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), anti-spyware software companies, academics, and public interest groups dedicated to defeating spyware. In 2006, Schwartz won the RSA award for Excellence in Public Policy for his work building the ASC and other efforts against spyware.

 

Shade, Leslie Regan

Leslie Regan Shade is an Associate Professor at Concordia University in the Department of
Communication Studies. Her research focus since the mid-1990's has been on the social, policy, and ethical aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs), with particular concerns towards issues of gender, globalization, and political economy.  The research contributions straddle the line between academic and non-academic audiences, including policymakers and non-profit groups.  She is involved in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), a research partnership between academics, government officials and community ICT organizations, whose aims are to investigate
community networking practices and ICT policy in Canada. An outgrowth of this was the Alternative Telecommunications Policy Forum bringing together public groups to discuss the impacts of telecom deregulation in Canada on the public interest. See cracin.ca and http://shade.flinknet.com/

 

Shapiro, Stuart

Dr. Stuart S. Shapiro is a Lead Information Security Scientist and a member of the Privacy Practice at the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit company performing contract technical research and consulting primarily for the U.S. government. At MITRE he has supported a wide range of privacy activities, including privacy impact assessments, for major government programs. Prior to joining MITRE he was Director of Privacy at CareInsite, an e-health company, where his responsibilities included both policy and technical issues revolving around privacy and security. He has also held academic positions at several institutions, including the Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology at Brunel University in the U.K. and the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the U.S. He has taught courses on the history, politics, and ethics of information and communication technologies (ICTs), while his research and writing have focused on ICTs and privacy and on the history and sociology of software development. Among his peer-reviewed articles is "Places and Spaces: The Historical Interaction of Technology, Home, and Privacy" (The Information Society 14(4)). He has also authored numerous conference presentations, discussion papers, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews. His current research interests include privacy-enabling technologies, analytical methodologies for privacy, and cognitive aspects of engineering practice. Among his professional affiliations are the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-including its public policy committee, USACM-and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Dr. Shapiro holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Applied History and Social Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional with government specialization (CIPP/G).

 

Simons, Barbara

Barbara Simons is a prominent computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  She has held various technical, administrative, and public policy positions with the ACM since the early 1990s [1]; she is founder and former Chair of USACM, the ACM U.S. Public Policy Committee.  Her main areas of research are compiler optimization and scheduling theory.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 1981 in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the Research Division of IBM, from which she took early retirement in 1998.  In 1992, Science featured her in a special edition on women in science.  She co-founded U.C. Berkeley's Computer Science Department Reentry Program for Women and Minorities.

Simons is on several Boards of Directors, including the U.C. Berkeley Engineering Fund and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as well as the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute and the Public Interest Registry's .ORG Advisory Council. She has testified before both the U.S. and the California legislatures.

Since at least 2002 Simons has been a highly vocal critic of unauditable electronic voting and is generally credited as a key player in getting the League of Women Voters to change its stance on this issue. Initially the League had seen electronic voting mainly as a way to minimize invalidly cast ballots, but at their June 2004 convention she led a successful fight to get this policy reversed to one of giving priority to voting systems that are "recountable".

 
 

Smith, Robert Ellis

Since 1974, Robert Ellis Smith, a lawyer and journalist in Providence, R.I., has published Privacy Journal newsletter, the world's first and longest lasting publication on individual rights in the computer age.  He has taught at Brown University, University of Maryland, Harvard University, and Tufts University and often appears before trade groups and government bodies and serves as an expert witness in privacy and surveillance cases. 

 

Southworth, Cindy

Cindy Southworth, MSW is the Founder and Director of Safety Net: the National Safe & Strategic Technology Project at the National Network toEnd Domestic Violence (NNEDV).  The Safety Net Project educates victims of domestic and sexual violence, their advocates, and the general public on ways that victims can use technology strategically to help escape violence and find safety.  The project also trains communities and advocates how to protect the security and confidentiality of victim data, and trains police officers and prosecutors on how to identify and hold perpetrators accountable for misusing technology.  She has worked to end violence against women for 16 years at national, state, and local advocacy organizations and has a lifetime of technology expertise. www.nnedv.org/safetynet

 

Spiekermann, Sarah

Sarah Spiekermann is an assistant professor at the Institute of Information

Systems at Humboldt University Berlin where she holds lectures for graduate

students on the subject of "Information Systems and E-Business" and regularly offers seminars on current topics in electronic markets. Her research work is mainly concerned with Technology Acceptance issues arising in Ubiquitous Computing environments. It includes the analysis of social aspects of technology acceptance (such as e-privacy, security and control) as well as economic aspects (such as market models, pricing mechanisms and personalization). Besides science and teaching she serves as director of InterVal, The Berlin Research Centre on Internet Economics. InterVal is concerned with the impacts of information technology on markets and proposes new solutions to fullfill market requirements. Furthermore, she leads the TAUCIS project which looks into future implications of Ubiquitous Computing for society.

 

Spinelllis, Diomidis

Spinellis is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a member of the IEEE Software editorial board. He is a four times winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (1988, 1990, 1991, 1995). His Erd�s number is 4. Spinellis holds an MEng degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both from Imperial College London (University of London, UK).

 

Steeves, Valerie

Valerie Steeves is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. Her main area of research is human rights and technology issues.  Professor Steeves has written and spoken extensively on privacy from a human rights perspective, and is an active participant in the privacy policy making process in Canada. In 1997, as a Special Advisor to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Rights, she organized and facilitated a series of public consultations exploring the meaning of privacy as a human right, and was one of the principal drafters of the Committee's report, Where Do we Draw the Line? She has appeared as an expert witness before a number of Parliamentary Committees regarding privacy legislation, and was a Special Advisor to Senator Finestone with respect to the Privacy Rights Charter. She is currently a member of the Canadian Standards Association's Technical Committee on Privacy and the Chair of the National Privacy Coalition.  Professor Steeves is the author of a number of award-winning educational games designed to teach children how to protect their human rights in cyberspace. Her multi-media game Sense and NonSense won the Canadian Race Relations Foundation's Award of Excellence in Race Relations Education and her interactive cyberplay about online privacy is used by Girl Guides across the country in the You Go Girl in Technology badge program. In 2004, Professor Steeves she was awarded the Labelle Lectureship at McMaster University. The Labelle is a juried prize that recognizes scholars engaged in multi-disciplinary research who are challenging existing methods or accepted ideas.

Steinhardt, Barry

Barry Steinhardt served as Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union between 1992 and 2002. In 2002, he was named as the inaugural Director of the ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty. He was chair of the 2003 Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) and a co-founder of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), the world's first international coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations concerned with the rights of Internet users to privacy and free expression. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the US Census and was a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Genetics of the National Conference of State Legislatures. He also was selected to be a member of the US delegation to the G-8 Government and Private Sector Tokyo conference on Cyber Crime.

 

Stoddart, Jennifer

Jennifer Stoddart was appointed Canada's Privacy Commissioner by the Governor in Council, effective December 1, 2003, on unanimous resolutions adopted by both the House of Commons and the Senate, for a seven-year term. Since her arrival, she has led the Office's institutional renewal, and has also reoriented it toward its multi-disciplinary approach to preventing privacy breaches in the public and private sectors, and to protecting and promoting the privacy rights of Canadians.

Ms. Stoddart was previously President of the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, an organization responsible for both access to information and the protection of personal information. She has held several senior positions in public administration for the Governments of Québec and Canada, including at the Canadian and the Quebec Human Rights Commissions. Ms. Stoddart has been active in the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, and has also lectured on history and legal sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University.

Sturgeon, Alice

Alice Sturgeon manages the area that is accountable for two new Government of Canada programs: Accessibility and Identity Management. As well she manages the Government Security Program, and participates in Business Continuity Planning for Pandemic Influenza Planning. Prior to joining the CIO Branch of Treasury Board Secretariat, she spent 12 years at the Communications Security Establishment. Ms. Sturgeon participates extensively in international standardization in the fields of identity management, security, biometrics, and accessibility. Ms. Sturgeon has a Masters degree in International Politics and Economics from Carleton University.

 

Tien, Lee

Lee Tien is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit public-interest group with offices in San Francisco, CA, and Washington, D.C. that specializes in high-tech civil liberties issues. Lee focuses on privacy and free speech issues. Since 9/11 he has worked on issues such as electronic surveillance, national security letters, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, data-mining, biometrics and RFID. Currently, he works with a team of lawyers on EFF's lawsuit against AT&T over warrantless wiretapping and disclosure of communications records.  He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

 

Trepetin, Stanley

Stanley Trepetin is the Chief Information Technology Security Officer at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). At DOHMH he sets overall IT security strategy and policy. Stanley completed his PhD at MIT in Health Informatics in 2006. At MIT, he designed new ways to anonymously match data and assess the value of information privacy within health organizations. Prior to MIT he worked for IBM for 10 years where he was a project manager and software developer, and provided large systems software support to Fortune 500 clients. He has a Master's Degree from Duke University focusing on patent usage within biotechnology and an undergraduate degree from Cornell.

 

Turcotte, Bernard

As President of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, CIRA, Mr. Turcotte is responsible for ensuring that all technical, organizational, and financial goals and processes are in support of CIRA's mandate. Prior to joining CIRA in February 2001, he was Director of Special Projects at CANARIE where he was responsible for launching CIRA's operations. Mr. Turcotte's resume includes the start-up of the Computer Research Institute of Montral (CRIM), the Réseau Interordinateur Scientifique Québec (RISQ, Qubec's first link to the Internet) as well as CANet--Canada's
first Internet Network.  He played a key role in organizing Inet'96; the Internet Society's annual international conference that attracted over 5,000 participants from around the globe to Canada. As well, he was a main contributor to activities of the Canadian
Domain Name Consultative Committee (CDNCC), the body that authored
the report leading to the creation of CIRA. Mr. Turcotte also actively participated in the activities leading to ICANN's creation.  He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics, with a minor in computer science, from McGill University and was recognized by the Prime
Minister of Canada as a founder and builder of the Canadian Internet.

 

Vaillant, Christian

 

Vitaliev, Dmitri

Dmitri Vitaliev works primarily with Tactical Tech, an Amsterdam based NGO helping to advance the skills, tools and techniques of non-profits, and Front Line Defenders, a Dublin based human rights organisation. Dmitri does a lot of field work [22
 countries and counting] with human rights activists, and among other things is the driving force behind "NGO in a box - Security Edition" http://security.ngoinabox.org. He has recently written a book on best security practices for NGOs that will be launched
during the CFP conference.  It is entitled 'Digital Security and Privacy for Human rights Defenders'. http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/manual/en/esecman/

 

Waldo, James

James Waldo is the lead architect for Jini, a distributed programming system based on Java. Before joining Jini, Dr. Waldo worked in JavaSoft and Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he did research in the areas of object-oriented programming and systems, distributed computing, and user environments. Before joining Sun, Dr. Waldo spent 8 years at Apollo Computer and Hewlett-Packard (HP) working in the areas of distributed object systems, user interfaces, class libraries, text, and internationalization. While at HP, he led the design and development of the first Object Request Broker and was instrumental in getting that technology incorporated into the first OMG CORBA specification. He edited the book /The Evolution of C++: Language Design in the Marketplace of Ideas/ (MIT Press), and was the author of the "Java Advisor" column in /Unix Review's Performance Computing/ magazine. Dr. Waldo is an adjunct faculty member of Harvard University, where he teaches distributed computing in the Department of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). He also holds M.A. degrees in both linguistics and philosophy from the University of Utah. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board's (CSTB ) Committee on Networked Systems of Embedded Computers, which produced the report /Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computer /(National Academy Press, 2001)/./

 

Webb, Maureen

Maureen Webb is a Canadian human rights and labour lawyer. She is the author of Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post 9-11 World (City Lights, San Francisco) which is out in North American bookstores this month and available through Amazon.com.  Maureen works for the Canadian Association of University Teachers. She is also a Co-Chair of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, and a founder of the International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance www.i-cams.org  and Coordinator for security and human rights issues for Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada.  She has written and spoken extensively on post-September 11 issues, most recently speaking at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Maureen was a Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University in 2001.

 

Whipple, Peggy

Currently the Chief Litigation Attorney for the Missouri Public Service Commission, serving as lead trial counsel in the Commission's two federal cases against AT&T (Missouri) for possible violations of state privacy laws protecting telecommunications customers' records. Previously a partner in the Knoxville, Tennessee law firms of Woolf,

McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter and also Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, with a trial practice focused on products liability defense.  Admitted to practice before the courts of Ohio, Tennessee and Missouri, and also before the Sixth and Eighth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Northern District of Ohio, the Eastern District of Tennessee and the Western District of Missouri."

 

Zaneis, Mike

Mike Zaneis is the Vice President of Public Policy for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).  Mike joined IAB in January of 2007 and runs their Washington D.C. office.  Prior to joining IAB, Mike served as Executive Director of Technology and E-Commerce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  As the chief technology and telecommunications lobbyist, he oversaw issues affecting the business community pertaining to telecommunications, data security, intellectual property, counterfeiting, piracy, online and consumer privacy, and e-commerce. Prior to joining the Chamber's lobby team, Mike served as the organization's Director of Technology Policy.  He has worked in politics for the past 12 years in Washington, D.C. and Michigan.  He received his bachelors degree from Michigan State University and both his J.D. and Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University.