Amadeu Abril i Abril is a member of the Board of Directors
of ICANN. He teaches European Union Law, Competition Law, and IT Law
at ESADE Law School, Ramon Llull University (a private University
based in Barcelona). He also is an attorney-at-law specialising in
distribution contracts, competition law and IT law. He was admitted to
the Barcelona Bar in 1985, where he currently serves as Secretary to
its Competition Law & Policy Section. Between 1986 and 1988 he worked
at the European Commission's Directorate General for Competition
Policy. His private practice has been significantly reduced since
1997, as he has been acting as a consultant on Internet and e-commerce
affairs to a number of European companies, most notably as Legal &
Policy Advisor to Nominalia Internet SL, a domain-name registrar. He
has been specially involved in all the DNS reform process that
eventually has brought ICANN into existence. He was elected to the
gTLD-MoU Policy Oversight Committee. He was a member of the DNSO Names
Council representing the Registrars Constituency until his selection
for the ICANN Board of Directors, and co-chaired DNSO Working Group A
on uniform dispute resolution policy.
Mark Ackerman is an associate professor in the Computing,
Organizations, Policy, and Society (CORPS) group in Information and
Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Mark holds
a Ph.D. in Information Technologies from MIT as well as a MS in
Computer Science from Ohio State and a BA in History in the Social
Sciences from the University of Chicago. Prior, he was an R&D
software engineer and manager, working on projects as diverse as the X
Window System Toolkit (Xt) and the Atari Ms. Pac-Man game. He has
published on a variety of topics in computer-supported cooperative
work, human-computer interaction, and the social analysis of
computerization, attempting to blend social science and computer
science methods. Mark edited and co-wrote the original architecture
overview spec for P3P and participated in several P3P working groups.
Professor Anita L. Allen-Castellitto is an expert on the law
and ethics of privacy. She joined the tenured faculty of the
University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1998. Between 1987 and
1998, Professor Allen-Castellitto was a professor and Associate Dean
for Research and Scholarship at Georgetown University Law Center. She
earned her law degree from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in
Philosophy from the University of Michigan (1979). Professor
Allen-Castellitto has taught courses on privacy law, constitutional
law, legal philosophy, political philosophy, tort law, professional
responsibility, and bioethics. She is the author (as Anita
L. Allen) of Uneasy Access: Privacy For Women in a Free Society
(Rowman and Littlefield, 1988); Privacy Law (with R.
Turkington,West Publish. Co., 1999); and Debating Democracy’s
Discontent (with M. Regan, eds., Oxford University Press,
1998).
Fred Baker has worked in the telecommunications industry
since 1978, building statistical multiplexors, terminal servers,
bridges, and routers. At Cisco Systems, his primary interest area is
the improvement of Quality of Service for best effort and real time
traffic. In addition to product development, as a Cisco Fellow, he
advises senior management of industry directions and appropriate
corporate strategies. His principal standards contributions have been
to the IETF, but he has contributed to ITU's H.323, and to such
industry consortia as WINSOCK II and the ATM Forum. In the IETF, he
has contributed to Network Management, Routing, PPP and Frame Relay,
the Integrated and Differentiated Services architectures, and the RSVP
signaling protocol. He currently serves as the IETF Chair, as well as
a technical contributor.
David Banisar is an attorney and writer in the Washington,
D.C. area specializing in communications, privacy, free speech and
freedom of information law and is Deputy Director of Privacy International. He
works on privacy related issues including international developments,
encryption, wiretapping, and new surveillance technologies. He is the
co-author of the annual EPIC/PI Privacy and Human Rights survey of
privacy, data protection, surveillance and freedom of information laws
around the world and the annual Cryptography and Liberty survey on
encryption policy. He was one of the founders of EPIC and was a Staff
Counsel and Policy Director from 1994 until April 1999. He has also
worked for the Association for Computing's (ACM) US Public Policy
Office, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the Prince
George's County, MD Public Defenders' Office, and as a computer
consultant for a variety of organizations. He is currently a
contributing editor for American Lawyer Media's Criminal Justice
Weekly and a contributing editor for the Privacy Times and
writes for other publications. He co-authored a book with Bruce
Schneier on cryptography policy entitled The Electronic Privacy
Papers which was published by John Wiley and Sons in September
1997.
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
Associate Professor. He is currently a fellow with the Harvard
Information Infrastructure Project, Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University. His research interests have focused on the
comparative analysis of information privacy protection policies at the
domestic and international levels. He has published Regulating
Privacy: Data Protection and Public Policy in Europe and the United
States (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992). He is also
co-editor of Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital
Age (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). He has
published articles in a variety of political science, public
administration and information technology journals. He has completed
policy reports for the Canadian Standards Association, Industry
Canada, and the European Union. He has given addresses and papers on
privacy-related issues in Canada, the United States, Britain, Germany,
Australia and New Zealand.
Ian Brown is busy co-founding Hidden Footprints Ltd., a
startup developing scalable and auditable content delivery services
for the Internet. He is also technology policy director of Privacy
International, where he has helped organise several conferences and
campaigns against key escrow, communications surveillance and
CCTV. His main research interests are in network security, the social
impact of the Internet, and good beer.
Duncan
Campbell is
a freelance investigative journalist and TV producer. In 1976, he revealed the
existence and nature of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), the
British counterpart of NSA. In 1980, he revealed the existence and nature
of the world’s largest electronic spy base at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, England,
as well as the location, existence and capabilities of the British government
telephone tapping centre known as Tinkerbell. In 1987, he produced a program
revealing the secret plans to construct and launch the first ever British
electronic listening satellite, codenamed Zircon. In 1988, he revealed for
the first time the ECHELON project, also known as Project P415, for the
widespread global automation and enlargement of the spying system on civil
international communications. In 1999, as a consultant to the European
Parliament, he produced a report containing the first documentary evidence for continued
existence of the ECHELON system, and providing an appraisal of its
capabilities.
K.K. Campbell was the first person in Canadian history to bring a
newspaper online (March 1994). He's written about the Net since 1991 and
is currently the Internet columnist for the Toronto Star. He launched
Canada's first mass market Internet column (May 1994). He's written for
the Globe & Mail, the Washington Post, Shift, CNet, Profit, Toronto
Computes and others. Campbell built a Web design firm whose clients
included Hill & Knowlton, Bayer Health Canada and others. He worked
closely with baseball pitcher Roger Clemens in 1998, helping the five
time Cy winner use the Net to circumvent traditional sports media and
speak directly to fans. He's now president of an Internet business
communications company.
Jason Catlett is President and founder of Junkbusters Corp.,
one of the web's leading resources on privacy and marketing.
Dr Catlett's Ph.D. was in Computer Science,
which he taught for several years at the University of Sydney, including
courses on technology and privacy. In 1992 he moved to AT&T Bell
Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, where he continued work
on "data mining" of large databases.
He moderated a panel on "Privacy and Profiling" at CFP'99.
Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. is a
recognized authority on privacy and data protection. She was
appointed Information and Privacy Commissioner / Ontario in 1997. As
Commissioner, Ann oversees Ontario's freedom of information and
privacy laws, which apply to provincial and municipal governments.
Ann joined the Commission in 1987, as its first Director of Compliance
and was appointed Assistant Commissioner in 1990. Ann received her
M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto, where she
specialized in criminology, and lectured on psychology and the
criminal justice system. Ann frequently speaks to speak at leading
forums around the world. Her published works include a book called,
Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World
(McGraw-Hill), as well as numerous articles in international
publications. Ann is particularly interested in advancing privacy
through the pursuit of privacy?enhancing technologies.
Roger
Clarke's involvement in privacy matters extends back to 1972. His
areas of expertise include electronic commerce and information
infrastructure, as well as dataveillance and privacy. His work
encompasses strategic and policy consultancy, research and public
interest advocacy. He holds degrees from U.N.S.W., and a doctorate
from the Australian National University. He spent a decade as a
senior information systems academic at the A.N.U., and continues as a
Visiting Fellow in the Department of Computer Science. He has been an
active participant in Internet communities throughout the 1990s, and
provides a substantial public-domain web-site, including the world's
most authoritative pages on 'Waltzing Matilda'.
David Colville was first appointed to the Canadian Radio-Television and
Telecommunications Commission as a full-time member in September
1990. From November 1990 to June 1991, he was interim Chairman and in
December 1992, he was appointed Regional Commissioner for the Atlantic
Region. On September 19, 1995 he was appointed CRTC Vice-Chairman
responsible for telecommunications. Since David Colville arrived at
the Commission, he has been active in decision-making on broadcasting
issues and instrumental in developing the Commission's directions and
policies on Telecommunications. Before joining the CRTC, Mr. Colville
was the Senior Director of Communications Policy with the Nova Scotia
Department of Transportation and Communications. During his time
there, he developed policies on both broadcasting and
telecommunications issues and played a key role in the creation of the
Atlantic Educational Television Service, the Nova Scotia Film
Development Corporation, and the Nova Scotia Technology Network. From
1970 to 1976, Mr. Colville worked in the telephone industry with Bell
Canada in Ottawa and MT&T in Halifax. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics
from Saint Mary's University and a B.Eng. in Industrial Engineering
from the Nova Scotia Technical College.
Lance Cottrell - an expert in the fields of cryptography,
security and online privacy technologies - is the founder and CEO of
leading online privacy provider, Anonymizer. Cottrell founded
Anonymizer while pursuing his Ph.D. in Astrophysics at the University
of California, San Diego. Cottrell's created Mixmaster, the world's
most secure anonymous web-based remailer. Cottrell holds a Bachelor
of Science degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a
Master's degree in Astrophysics from the University of California, San
Diego, where he left the Ph.D. program to focus on establishing
Anonymizer as the leader in Internet privacy.
Paul W. Craft, CPA, CISA, is employed by the Florida
Department of State, Division of Elections as the Administrator of the
Division's Voting System Section which is responsible under Florida
Law for setting and enforcing standards for electronic voting
systems. He represents Florida on the Independent Test Authority
Committee (ITA) of the National Association of State Elections
Directors. He became convinced that Internet Voting was possible in
October 1997, and began researching and formulating related policy. He
was named as project director for the Department's internet voting
initiative and assigned to represent Florida on the Federal Voter
Assistance Program's Alliance Committee to develop an Internet voting
pilot project in January 1998.
James
X. Dempsey, CDT Senior Staff Counsel, joined CDT at the beginning
of 1997. He is working on Fourth Amendment and electronic surveillance
issues. Prior to joining CDT, Mr. Dempsey was Deputy Director of the
Center for National Security Studies. From 1985 to 1994, Mr. Dempsey
was assistant counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and
Constitutional Rights. From 1980 to 1984, Mr. Dempsey was an
associate with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter. He
graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979 and from Yale College in
1975. Mr. Dempsey is author of Communications Privacy In The Digital
Age: Revitalizing The Wiretap Laws To Enhance Privacy and co-author of
Terrorism & the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name
of National Security (with Prof. David Cole) (1999)
Julian Dibbell is the author of "My Tiny Life: Crime and
Passion in a Virtual World" (Henry Holt), a literary ethnography about
the online community LambdaMOO. He has been writing about cyberculture
for over a decade, exploring in numerous articles and lectures the
social, political, and philosophical dimensions of digital
technology. Formerly a contributor to TIME Magazine and before that a
columnist at The Village Voice, he now writes as a freelancer for a
variety of online and print publications. He lives in South Bend,
Indiana, with his wife, Jessica Chalmers, a professor at Notre Dame
University.
Whitfield Diffie, who is best known for his 1975 discovery
of the concept of public key cryptography, has occupied the position
of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc. since
1991. Prior to this, he was Manager of Secure Systems Research at
Northern Telecom, a position he had held since 1978. Diffie is a
graduate in mathematics of MIT and Dr. techn. sci. (hc) of the ETH in
Zurich. Since 1993, Diffie has worked largely on public policy aspects
of cryptography. His position – in opposition to limitations
on the business and personal use of cryptography – has been the
subject of articles in the New York Times Magazine,
Wired, Omni, and Discover and has been the
subject of programs on the Discovery Channel, Equinox TV in Britain,
and the Japanese TV network NHK. Diffie is the author, jointly with
Susan Landau, of the book Privacy on the Line: the Politics of
Wiretapping and Encryption.
Mark Eckenwiler is Senior Counsel at the Computer Crime and
Intellectual Property Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of
Justice. His areas of expertise include ECPA and federal wiretap law,
computer search and seizure, and computer intrusion investigations. A
Net veteran for more than 13 years, he writes and lectures frequently
about the Internet and criminal law, and serves on the ABA Task Force
on Technology and Law Enforcement. Mark holds an A.B. cum laude from
Harvard (1982), an M.A. in Classics (Ancient Greek) from Boston
University (1986), and a J.D. cum laude from New York University
School of Law (1991).
Bob Ellis retired in 1993 as Sun Microsystems' representative on the
technology committee of the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) and
co-manager of Sun's university research program. Previously, he held
computer graphics software development and management positions with
Sun, GE-Calma, Atari, Boeing, and Washington University (St. Louis). He
received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science from Washington University (St. Louis). Ellis currently serves
as the Chair of the Public Policy Committee of ACM's Special Interest
Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) where
he and his committee have focused on bandwidth and other policy issues
critical to the development and use of graphics and graphical user
interfaces.
Ray Everett-Church is Chief Privacy Officer and VP for Public Policy at
AllAdvantage.com, the world's largest and fastest growing Infomediary. He
has a national reputation as an expert in the law and policy of e-commerce
and privacy. Before joining AllAdvantage.com, he practiced law in the
Washington, DC-area and consulted for numerous ISPs, startups, and
Internet ventures. A regular commentator on Internet issues in the media,
he has testified before the US Congress regarding emerging technology and
privacy issues. In his spare time he administers the popular email legal
discussion lists Cyberia-L and Cybertelecom-L, both hosted on
listserv.aol.com. He may be reached at .
Zack Exley is the creator of GWBush.com, the parody site that caused George
W Bush to demand "limits to freedom." Bush's often absurd attacks on
GWBush.com have drawn over a million visits to the site. Exley also
publishes TheGreatCrash.com,
which pokes fun at the Internet stock bubble, and is working on
YourWar.com, a campaign to help prevent the next war. Exley got his
start in politics organizing to prevent the Gulf War while a student
at the University of Massachusetts. He went on to work as a union
organizer for five years on campaigns with the AFL-CIO, UAW, and SEIU.
He is writing a book on the paralysis of the U.S. Left.
A. Michael Froomkin is a
Professor at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables,
Florida, specializing in Internet Law and Administrative Law. He is a
member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and
serves on the Advisory Boards of the BNA Electronic Information Policy
& Law Report and on the Editorial Board of Information, Communication
& Society. He recently served as a member of the "Panel of Experts"
of the World Intellectual Property Institute's Internet Domain Name
Process. He is also a director of Out2.com, an Internet
startup. Professor Froomkin writes primarily about the electronic
commerce, electronic cash, privacy, Internet governance, the
regulation of cryptography, and U.S. constitutional law.
Simson L. Garfinkel is a
journalist, a high-tech entrepreneur, and an author. As a journalist,
Garfinkel writes a weekly column called Simson Says that appears in
The Boston Globe (both print and online). The column
specializes in information that's useful to ordinary computer
users. Garfinkel is a frequent contributor to Wired
Magazine. His articles have appeared in more than 50 publications
including ComputerWorld, Forbes, The New York Times, and
Technology Review. As an entrepreneur, Garfinkel has been a
founder or major player in at least four startups, including
Vineyard.NET, the premiere Internet Service Provider of Martha's
Vineyard, and Sandstorm Enterprises, the company that created the
world's first commercial telephone scanner. Garfinkel is also the
author or co-author of eight books, published by O'Reilly and
Associates, Springer-Verlag, and IDG Books.
Michael Geist is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University
of Ottawa Law School in Ottawa, Ontario. Following his 1992 graduation
from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, Professor Geist
travelled to Kobe, Japan where, as a Monbusho Scholar, he conducted
legal research into foreign investment regulation at the Kobe
University School of Law. Before returning to Toronto in 1994, he
completed his Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) at Cambridge University in
England specializing in commercial and European Union law. Following a
year of corporate practice at the Toronto office of Goodman, Phillips
& Vineberg, Professor Geist joined the Dalhousie Law School faculty in
Halifax, Canada as an Assistant Professor of Law where he taught
contracts and corporations law. In 1996, he joined the Columbia Law
School faculty as an Associate-in-Law where he taught Legal Research
and Writing while completing work towards a Doctorate in Juridical
Science (J.S.D.). Professor Geist joined the Ottawa faculty in 1998
where he teaches in the Internet and technology field.
Beth Givens is Director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a
nonprofit advocacy, research and consumer education program located in
San Diego, California. The Clearinghouse was established in 1992 with
funding from the California Public Utilities Commission's
Telecommunications Education Trust. It is a project of the Utility
Consumers’ Action Network, a nonprofit organization which advocates
for consumers’ interests regarding telecommunications, energy and
the Internet. Givens frequently speaks and conducts workshops on the
issue of privacy, and has participated in numerous media
interviews. In addition, Givens has been a member of several task
forces studying the privacy impacts of technology on society. Givens
holds a master's degree in communications management from the
Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
(1987). She has a background in library and information services, with
experience in online research services and library network development
(M.L.S., University of Denver, 1975).
For
nine years, Mike Godwin served as counsel for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. Godwin has published articles for print and electronic publications
on topics such as computer crime, the First Amendment online, and copyright in
cyberspace. In 1996-1997, he was one of the counsel of record for the
plaintiffs in Reno v. ACLU, the Supreme Court case that established the
applicability of First Amendment doctrine to the Internet. In 1998, Godwin
published his first book, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital
Age (Times Books), which deals with a number of important cases raising
issues about freedom of speech on the Internet. Since 1999 he has served
as senior editor for American Lawyer Media’s E-Commerce Law
Weekly.
Ian Goldberg is Chief Scientist and Head Cypherpunk of
Zero-Knowledge Systems, Inc., a Montreal-based company offering
privacy and identity management software to consumers. He is also a
PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of California,
Berkeley, where his research interests include privacy-enhancing
technologies, security, cryptography, and electronic cash. He is the
author of a number of academic papers on these topics, as well as the
perl encryption code in Neal Stephenson's book "Cryptonomicon".
Austin
Hill is
co-founder and president of Zero-Knowledge Systems, Inc., a leading developer of
Internet privacy technologies. A frequent lecturer on privacy and security, he
has spoken at international venues including COMDEX, Internet World, ISPCON and
the 21st International Conference on Privacy and Personal Data Protection. An
authority on privacy-related legislative and policy issues, Mr. Hill recently
addressed the Federal Trade Commission on the subject of children’s online
privacy. He has been quoted or profiled in leading publications including the Los
Angeles Times, the New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek,
Red Herring, Time and Wired magazine. Mr. Hill has built
three Internet companies from the ground up – beginning with his first at age
17. Before co-founding Zero-Knowledge Systems, Mr. Hill was founder and
president of Infobahn Online Services, which merged to form TotalNet, one of
Canada’s most successful Internet companies to date. Prior to TotalNet, he
created Cyberspace Data Security, an early network security consulting
firm.
Marit
Köhntopp, computer scientist, is head of the Department of
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PET) at the Privacy Commissioner's
Office Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Since 1995 she has been working on
security and privacy aspects especially concerning the Internet,
anonymity and pseudonymity, biometrics, multilateral security,
negotiation, in short: all kinds of privacy-enhancing and
privacy-sympathetic technologies with both the technical and the
jurisdictional point of view. In several projects she and her team
actively participate in technology design in order to support PET and to
give feedback to the legislation. She is a member of the Steering
Committee of the German Society for Law and Computer Science (DGRI) and
a member of the Working Group on Reliable IT Systems of the German
Society for Computer Science (GI).
David M. Kristol is currently a Member of Technical Staff at
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, in the Information Sciences
Research Center, where he works on Internet billing and accounting.
In the privacy arena, he co-authored RFC 2109, the IETF's "cookie"
specification, implemented the Lucent Personalized Web Assistant
(LPWA), and implemented the prototype of a new JavaScript security
model. Previously, he participated actively in HTTP standardization,
and he has worked on formal specifications for communications
protocols. Earlier, he was the principal developer of the Unix System
V ANSI C compiler. Kristol holds degrees from the University of
Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
Giancarlo Livraghi
has a degree in philosophy from Milan University. He is basically a
writer. Early in his career he became a copywriter in advertising;
much to his surprise, he was promoted into "management", as
what they now call a "creative director" - and then more. In
1966 he was appointed CEO of McCann-Erickson in Milan, which five
years later became the largest advertising agency in Italy. He was
chairman of the European new business committee and head of Southern
Europe (happily nicknamed the "garlic belt"). In 1975 he was
moved to New York as executive vp of McCann-Erickson
International. He returned to Italy in 1980 as the majority partner
of Livraghi, Ogilvy & Mather, then a small agency that grew
thirtyfold in the following years. He left the agency business in 1993
and is now predominantly interested in the human and cultural values
of electronic communication. He is a "militant" advocate of
net freedom and culture. In 1994 he was one of the founders, and the
first chairman, of ALCEI
Electronic Frontiers Italy.
Steven Lucas is Chief Information Officer, Privaseek, Inc. A prominent voice on
the issue of consumer privacy, Dr. Lucas has taken leadership
positions in a number of the issues key organizations, including Chair
of the Syntax and Encoding Group of Privacy Preferences Projects (P3P)
within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); the Editor of the
Protocols and Data Transport Working Group on the Platform for P3P;
and a member of the board of directors for TRUSTe. He also is a member
of the U.S. delegation to the European Union Data Directive and the
U.S. Model Contract Working Group. Lucas is an expert in privacy law,
electronic commerce, computer security, database marketing and
database technology. Prior to joining PrivaSeek, Dr. Lucas was CIO
for Excite@Home's MatchLogic division. Dr. Lucas received his
Ph.D. from Stanford University. He also received a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the Citadel and an MBA from New Hampshire College.
slucas@privaseek.com
Kate Lundy was
elected to the Australian Federal Parliament in 1996 where at 28, she
became the youngest woman ever elected to represent the Australian
Labor Party. Following re-election in 1998, Senator Lundy was
appointed to the Opposition front bench, where she holds the position
of Shadow (opposition) Minister for Information Technology, Sport and
Youth Affairs. Active on several Senate Committees, including Finance
& Public Administration and Environment, Communications, Information
Technology & the Arts, Senator Lundy's main policy interest is the
Internet. She is also a member of the Presiding Officers' Information
Technology Advisory Committee. Senator Lundy built and maintains her
own web site at www.katelundy.com.au. and was awarded the Australian
Computer Society's "Most Computer Literate Politician" Award back in
1996. She says its all relative.... Her constituency is the
Australian Capital Territory, home of Australia's national capital,
Canberra, where she worked as a construction laborer from the age of
16 before becoming active in the Labor movement.
Greg Miller is MedicaLogic's (Nasdaq:MDLI) Chief Internet Strategist as
well as their Director of Governmental Affairs. Mr. Miller has over 21
years of experience in the development of the commercial Internet dating
back to the days of the Arpanet. He is a trained computer scientist,
with graduate business education in marketing and a law degree with
emphasis on intellectual property, complex federal litigation,
industrial organization, and public policy.
His focus at MedicaLogic is in the areas of strategic business planning
and relations development, M&A, and governmental affairs. He leads
MedicaLogic's efforts in regulatory compliance and stays abreast of
legislative developments affecting online patient records, privacy and
security. Recently, Greg was appointed by the Federal Trade Commission
to a special advisory council on consumer access and privacy online.
Andrea Monti,
lawyer, graduated in criminal law at University of Teramo and has
post-graduate degrees in Criminal Anthropology at University of Chieti
and in IT-Law at University "La Sapienza", Rome. He is lecturer in
Public Law at University of Chieti and in Criminal Law at University
of Teramo, and writes monthly columns on internet related legal
matters in the Italian edition of "PC Magazine" and in "Web Marketing
Tools". He is co-author of two books: Spaghetti Hacker (a history of
Italian hacking) and Segreti, spie, codici cifrati (on encryption
history, law and technology). A free speech and civil rights advocate,
he joined ALCEI in 1995 and is the current chairman of the
association.
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO
of O’Reilly & Associates,
Inc. O’Reilly is the most-respected name in computer book
publishing today, but in addition to educating the elite programmers
and webmasters who drive technology forward, the company has played a
major role in several pivotal transitions in the computer
industry. O’Reilly’s Whole Internet User’s Guide and
Catalog first brought the web to the attention of the NCSA team
who built Mosaic; its GNN (Global Network Navigator) was the first
Internet portal (and in fact the web’s first commercial website);
O’Reilly’s championship of Open Source technologies such as
Linux, Apache and Perl has now once again landed it on the front pages
of industry and national publications. In addition to its book
publishing operations, O’Reilly also runs a successful series of
conferences on leading edge technologies and produces web
software. Through the O’Reilly Network, the company manages several
important web sites, including perl.com and xml.com. Tim is on the
boards of ActiveState Tool Corp, Collab.Net, Invisible Worlds, and
EPit. He received Infoworld’s Industry Achievement Award for
1998.
Ronald L. Plesser focuses on information, privacy,
communications, computer and intellectual property law, with
particular emphasis on issues that concern data base companies,
publishers, and other companies affected by the emergence of new
information technologies. He represents trade associations and
individual companies in the field of publishing, electronic
communication and marketing, before the U.S. Congress, administrative
agencies and the courts of the United States. Mr. Plesser has been an
adjunct professor at the National Law Center of The George Washington
University and is a past Chair of the Individual Rights and
Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association. He also
served as Deputy Director of the Science, Space, and Technology
Cluster of the 1992 Clinton-Gore Transition, with primary
responsibility for review of the Federal Communications Commission.
David Post is
currently an Associate Professor of Law at Temple University Law
School, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of
cyberspace. He is also the Co-Editor of ICANN Watch, Co-Founder/Co-Director
of the Cyberspace Law Institute,
and Co-Director of Disputes.org. After attending
Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in
1986, he clerked with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit
Court of Appeals, spent 6 years practicing intellectual property and
high technology commercial transactions law at the Washington D.C. law
firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and clerked a second time for
Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court of the
United States. He also has a Ph.D. in physical anthropology and
taught in the Anthropology Department of Columbia University
(1976-1981). During 1996-1997 he conducted, along with two colleagues
(Professors Larry Lessig and Eugene Volokh) the first Internet-wide
e-mail course on "Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers," which attracted
over 20,000 subscribers. He also plays guitar, piano, banjo, and
harmonica in the band "Bad
Dog".
Rohan
Samarajiva is currently Associate Professor of Communication,
Public Policy and Management and Senior International Specialist at
the National Regulatory Research Institute at the Ohio State
University in Columbus, USA. His research and teaching interests are
in the areas of social implications of information-communication
technologies, with emphasis on telecommunication policy and regulation
and emerging interactive technologies. His research on the
institutional aspects of telecommunication networks includes work on
surveillance/privacy, trust and freedom of expression. Samarajiva
served as Director General of Telecommunications of Sri Lanka in
1998-99. He is a member of the International Telecommunication
Union's Expert Group on International Telecommunication Regulations.
He is founding co-editor of the journal, New Media & Society, and
serves on the editorial boards of the journals Communication Law &
Policy and Telecommunications Policy.
Karl J. Sandstrom was nominated to the Federal Election
Commission by President William Clinton on July 13, 1998, and
confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30, 1998. Prior to his
appointment Commissioner Sandstrom served as Chairman of the
Administrative Review Board at the Department of Labor. From 1988 to
1992 he was Staff Director of the House Subcommittee on Elections,
during which time he also served as the Staff Director of the Speaker
of the House's Task Force on Electoral Reform. From 1979 to 1988,
Mr. Sandstrom served as the Deputy Chief Counsel to the House
Administration Committee of the House of Representatives. In addition,
he has taught public policy as an Adjunct Professor at the American
University. Commissioner Sandstrom received a B.A. degree from the
University of Washington, a J.D. degree from George Washington
University, and a Masters of the Law of Taxation from Georgetown
University Law Center.
Margot Freeman Saunders has been the Managing Attorney of
the Washington office of the National Consumer Law Center since
1991. Margot's duties include representing the interests of low income
clients in Congress on electronic commerce issues, financial credit
issues, and water and energy matters. She has testified on numerous
occasions before various Congressional committees on the impact of
various proposals on low income households, and recently completed
terms as a member of the Federal Reserve Board's Consumer Advisory
Council, and the American Water Works Association Public Advisory
Forum. She is coauthor of a number of books, including Access to
Utility Service (NCLC 1996), Energy and the Poor: The Crisis
Continues (NCLC 1995), Tenants' Rights to Utility Service
(1994), and The Manual on Water Affordability Programs (AWWA,
1998), as well as a numerous articles on consumer and utilities laws
as they affect low income people in the United States.
Paul M. Schwartz is a Professor of
Law at Brooklyn Law School (Brooklyn, New York). He is a leading
international expert in the field of informational privacy who has
published and lectured on issues concerning computers and privacy in
the United States and Europe. In this country, his articles and
essays have appeared in periodicals such as the Columbia Law Review,
Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Iowa
Law Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, and the Partisan
Review. He is the co-author of DATA PRIVACY LAW (1996), the most
in-depth study of the privacy protection provided for personal
information in the United States, and ON-LINE SERVICES: REGULATORY
RESPONSES (1998), a study carried out for the Commission of the
European Union that examines emerging issues in Internet privacy in
four European countries.
Sheridan Elizabeth Scott is Chief Regulatory Officer of Bell
Canada. Ms Scott's responsibilities include maintaining regulatory
relationships with the CRTC, the Commissioner of Competition, the
Copyright Board and the FCC. She also oversees public policy issues
for Bell Canada, Nexxia and ActiMedia, particularly with respect to
the Internet and e-commerce. Prior to her appointment on August 1,
1999, Ms Scott was Vice President - Office of the President.
Ms Scott is the author of several articles on communications law. She
is Director and Vice-Chair of Canadian Women in Communications (CWC);
Founding member, National Capital Association of Communications
Lawyers (NCACL); Director of Opera Lyra Ottawa; Director and
Vice-Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund as well as a
member of the Ontario Digital Media Growth Fund. She recently joined
the Board of the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA).
Adam Shostack is Most Evil Genius at Zero-Knowledge Systems,
Inc.,
where he is responsible for advanced technology research and
development. His research interests include privacy technologies, and
the design and analysis of secure systems, and processes for their
implementation. He has written papers on code reviews, smartcards,
and other topics.
Barbara Simons was elected President of ACM in 1998. Prior
to becoming ACM President, Simons chaired ACM's U.S. Technology Policy
Committee (USACM), and the ACM Committee for Scientific Freedom and
Human Rights. She is a Fellow of ACM and of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Simons earned her Ph.D. in
computer science from U.C. Berkeley. She became a Research Staff
Member at IBM's San Jose Research Center (now Almaden), where she did
research on scheduling theory, compiler optimization, and fault
tolerant distributed computing. She then joined IBM's Applications
Development Technology Institute and subsequently served as senior
technology advisor for IBM Global Services. Simons was selected by
c|net as one of its 26 Internet "Visionaries" and was named one of the
"Top 100 Women in Computing" by Open Computing. She received the CPSR
Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility in
Computing and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer
Award.
Eric
J. Sinrod is a partner in the
San Francisco office of the national U.S. law firm, Duane, Morris & Heckscher
LLP. Mr. Sinrod advises clients on issues of commercial law and Internet
liability, and has had significant trial and appellate experience
reaching up to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Sinrod has also
lectured and written extensively about the law of the Internet, and
recently completed a treatise titled Intellectual Property and
Unfair Competition in Cyberspace. He is also one of the
authors of “Upside Counsel,” a
weekly legal affairs column in the online magazine
UpsideToday.com. Mr. Sinrod is on the Editorial Board of the Journal
of Internet Law, a member of the ABA Internet Industry Committee, and
a member of the Executive Committee of the Law Practice Management
& Technology Section of the State Bar of California.
Robert Ellis Smith is a journalist who uses his training as
an attorney to report on the individual’s right to privacy.
Since 1974, he has published Privacy Journal, a monthly
newsletter on privacy in a computer age. It is based in
Providence, R.I. Smith is a frequent speaker, writer, and
Congressional witness on privacy issues and has compiled a
clearinghouse of information on the subject: computer data banks,
credit and medical records, the Internet, electronic surveillance, the
law of privacy, and physical and psychological privacy.
Smith is the author of Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from
Plymouth Rock to the Internet, a 416-page book on the history of privacy,
published in the spring of 2000.
He has also written Our Vanishing Privacy
(1993) and The Law of Privacy Explained (1993), as well as
Privacy: How to Protect What’s Left of It. Privacy
Journal also publishes Compilation of State and Federal Privacy
Laws.
Neal
Stephenson is
author of Cryptonomicon, the cyberpunk classic Snow Crash, the
Hugo Award-winning The Diamond Age, and Zodiac: The Eco Thriller.
He has written for Wired and is one of three authors ever to write a
fiction piece for Time magazine. Stephenson is one of six visiting
fellows at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He has an almost prophetic vision of the future and a cult
following among high-tech thinkers. Growing up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
and Ames, Iowa, Stephenson decided he never wanted to work in an occupation
that forced him to wear hard shoes. In this vein, he began college as physics
major at Boston University. Stephenson was lured to study geography because
that department had better computers. A capable programmer and acclaimed
writer, he finds it hard to work unless he’s listening to music on headphones.
Since 1984, he has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and has made a living
out of writing novels and the occasional magazine article. Currently he makes
his home in the Seattle area with his family.
Steve
Talbott is
editor of the highly respected online newsletter, NetFuture – Technology and
Human Responsibility. He is also author of The Future Does Not
Compute: Transcending the Machines in Our Midst. The library journal, Choice,
selected this book for its annual list of the “Outstanding Academic Books” of
the year. Unix Review named it one of the “Best Books of 1995.”
Talbott is a senior researcher at The Nature Institute in Ghent, New York,
where he explores the social, historical, and philosophical foundations of
science and technology. In his frequent appearances as a public speaker, he
addresses how modern technologies challenge us as individuals and as a
society.
Jim Tam. Over the past twenty years as a senior management
and technical professional, both in the public and private sectors,
Dr. Tam has extensive experiences in the management, design and
development of system projects of significant size and complexity. His
areas of expertise include information exploration and retrieval,
system security and data privacy, system architecture mapping, and
parallel processing. Currently, he is an associate professor in the
School of Information Technology Management, Ryerson Polytechnic
University, Toronto, Canada. His applied research interest is mainly
focused on data privacy control, both technically and legally, in
asynchronous and synchronous collaborative systems.
Mozelle W. Thompson was sworn in as a Commissioner on the
Federal Trade Commission December 17, 1997. Mr. Thompson most
recently held the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at
the Department of the Treasury. Prior to joining the Treasury
Department, Mr. Thompson served as Senior Vice President and General
Counsel to the New York State Finance Agency and as an attorney with
the New York firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.
Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia Law School
and holds an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs where he is currently co-teaching
a policy workshop on the Next Generation Internet. Mr. Thompson
currently leads the United States delegation to the Organization of
Economic Cooperating Development (OECD) Consumer Policy Committee and
serves as president-elect of the International Marketing Supervision
Network (IMSN), an association of international consumer protection
enforcement agencies.
George Tomko is Chairman of Photonics Research Ontario, an
Ontario Center of Excellence comprising researchers from Ontario
universities and research institutes with the mandate to develop
optical and photon based technologies. Dr. Tomko founded Mytec
Technologies, Inc. in 1987 where he invented the privacy enhancing
technology of Biometric Encryption. He served as President and CEO
until September, 1996 and Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer until
December, 1997. Prior to founding Mytec, Dr. Tomko was a co-founder
of Counterforce, Inc.; Vice-President and General Manager of Chubb
Security Systems; and a researcher-lecturer at the University of
Toronto. He also served in the Canadian Armed Forces (Royal Canadian
Navy) for ten years, attaining the rank of Captain. Dr. Tomko has a
B.A.Sc. in engineering physics, a M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering,
and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Toronto.
Bruce
Umbaugh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of
the Center for Practical and Interdisciplinary Ethics at Webster
University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland,
College Park and teaches epistemology, philosophy of science, and
modern philosophy, as well as courses on technology and cyberspace.
He has written and spoken on such topics as naturalistic treatments of
human rationality, anonymity and identity online, free speech, virtual
community, intellectual property, and distance education. His recent
book, On Berkeley (Wadsworth 2000), reviews the arguments of
the 18th-century, Irish philosopher, George Berkeley, and also
discusses the relevance of Berkeley's idealism for understanding
cyberspace.
Hans A. von Spakovsky is the Executive Director of the
Voting Integrity Project Legislative Alliance. He serves on the Board
of Advisors of the Voting Integrity Project, a national non-partisan
organization concerned with protecting the integrity and security of
the voting process, which released the first research paper on
Internet voting: "Are We Ready for Internet Voting?" Mr. von
Spakovsky is the Vice President and General Counsel of the Strollo
Group, a government relations and public affairs firm. He is an
attorney with 15 years of experience in private practice, as the head
of a corporate legal department, and as a government affairs
consultant. Mr. von Spakovsky serves on the Board of Advisors of the
Georgia Public Policy Foundation, the largest state-based think tank
in the country. He is a graduate of the Vanderbilt School of Law and
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Raymond Wacks is Professor of Law and Legal Theory at the
University of Hong In March 1997 he was awarded a Higher Doctorate in
Law (LLD) by the University of London for his publications on privacy
and legal theory. Professor Wacks' major works in the field of privacy
are The Protection of Privacy (1980), Personal Information:
Privacy and the Law, (OUP, 1989), Privacy, a two-volume collection
of essays, Privacy and Press Freedom (1995). He is co-author
(with Mark Berthold) of Data Privacy: A Guide to the Hong Kong
Law (1997). Professor Wacks is the chairman of the sub-committee
of the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong currently examining this
subject, and a member of the Personal Data (Privacy) Advisory
Committee. His well-known book, Jurisprudence (now in its
fifth edition), is used by students throughout the common law world.
Jonathan
Weinberg is a professor at Wayne State University Law School
in Detroit, Michigan, where he's taught since 1988. Before coming to
Wayne, he clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice
Thurgood Marshall, studied Japanese communications law as a visiting
scholar at the University of Tokyo, and was an associate at the
Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea & Gardner. He has taken leaves of
absence, since coming to Wayne, in order to serve as a scholar in
residence at the Federal Communications Commission, where he worked on
Internet-related matters, and as a professor in residence at the
Justice Department. He is currently a visiting scholar at Cardozo Law
School's Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society, and
co-chair of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers's
Working Group C on new global top-level domains.
Anne Adams is a PhD student (sponsored by British Telecom) at
University College London. Her thesis has identified a model of
users' perceptions of privacy in multimedia communications with
recommendations for privacy policies and mechanisms. Her findings
have also highlighted that current privacy approaches are inadequate
for the unique nature of multimedia data. During her research she has
also reviewed the usability of security mechanisms (specifically
password authentication). She will soon be starting a new project at
Middlesex University researching into 'the social impacts of digital
library introduction' for both health professionals and university
members.
Randall Davis is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science Department at MIT, where for 5 years he also
served as Associate Director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory. Dr. Davis has been a seminal contributor to the field of expert
systems, where he has worked since 1976. In 1990 he was named
a Founding Fellow of the American Association for AI and in 1995
was elected to a two-year term as President of the Association.
From 1995-1998 he served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the
U. S. Air Force and serves currently on a variety of editorial boards.
Dr. Davis has also been active in the area of intellectual property.
Most recently he chaired the committee that created the
just-published CSTB study entitled "The Digital Dilemma:
Intellectual Property in the Information Age."
Marc Waldman is a Ph.D. student in the Computer
Science Department at New York University. His
research interests include computer security
and privacy-enhancing technologies. He received
a BA and MS in Computer Science from New York
University.
