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Dennis Bailey Dennis Bailey is the Chief Operating Officer for Comter Systems, an information technology and management consulting firm in Fairfax, Va. He is the author of "The Open Society Paradox: Why the Twenty-First Century Calls for More Openness Not Less," which makes the case for secure identification and greater information sharing. He also maintains a daily blog of the same name which provides news and commentary on these topics.
Cheye (pronounced "shi") Calvo directs the National Conference
of State Legislatures' (NCSL) transportation and financial services
committees and represents state legislatures in our federal
system of government on banking, insurance, securities and transportation
issues. Cheye played a leading role in efforts to
create state-friendly federal driver's license standards as part
of the intelligence reform in December 2004 and more
recently in opposing the driver's license provisions of
the REAL ID Act. Cheye has spoken, testified and written
extensively on a wide range of public policy matters, and has
co-authored and co-edited studies on human genetics policy, genetic
privacy, and auto insurance ratemaking. He also serves as the part-time,
elected mayor of the Town of Berwyn Heights, Maryland. Ms. Coney is Associate Director with the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC). Her issue areas include: nanotechnology, surveillance,
civil rights and privacy, census, voter privacy and electronic voting.
Ms. Coney also serves as Coordinator of the National Committee on
Voting Integrity (NCVI). NCVI was created in 2003 in response to
growing concerns about the reliability of electronic voting systems.
Edwin Davis is Vice President of Policy and Research. In this role, he helps Common Cause develop its position on issues and is one of our lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Ed supervises the research department in the development of reports and other material on Common Cause issues. The research department also provides assistance and advice to Common Cause state organizations, collaborating on studies and other issue-related products.
David Flaherty is a specialist in the management of privacy and
information policy issues. He served a six-year, non-renewable term
as the first Information and Privacy Commissioner for the Province
of British Columbia (1993-99). Flaherty has written or edited fourteen
books. His teaching career from
1965 to 1993 included Princeton University, the University of Virginia,
and the University of Western Ontario, where he was professor of
history and law from 1972 to 1999 and from which he is now a professor
emeritus. In 1992-93 Flaherty was a
Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington, DC and a Canada-US. Fulbright Scholar in Law. Flaherty
is currently an adjunct professor in political science at the University
of Victoria.
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. is the Herbert I. Schiller Information and Society
Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University
of Pennsylvania. He is author of “The Panoptic Sort” and “Beyond
Agenda Setting,” two books that explore issues of information
and public policy. A recent book, “Communication and Race,” explores
the structure of media and society, as well as the cognitive structures
that reflect and are reproduced through media use. A co-edited volume, “Framing
Public Life,” examines the rule of media in shaping public
understanding.
Raj Goyle is a Senior Policy Analyst for Domestic Policy at the
Center for American Progress. He recently left the ACLU of Maryland,
where he focused on post-9/11 immigration issues, voting rights,
and civil liberties. Prior to that, he worked on election reform
on the national level and with community groups in Florida, and helped
lead a project on juvenile justice reform in Mississippi. Raj has
also worked for Public Citizen and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,
and served as a researcher for South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation
Commission, contributing to the Commission's Final Report released
in 1998.
Deborah Hurley is a Senior Research Associate at the Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University. Hurley is a member of the State
Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and
Information Policy and the AAAS' Advisory Committee on International
Science. She was an official (1988-96) of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD). Hurley wrote the seminal report
on information network security for the OECD member nations in 1989,
was responsible for the drafting, negotiation and adoption by OECD
member countries of the 1992 OECD Guidelines for the Security of
Information Systems, and initiated the OECD activities on cryptography
policy in the early 1990s.
Jerry Kang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law and Visiting
Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center during 2004-2005.
Professor Kang’s teaching and scholarly pursuits include civil
procedure, race, and communications. On race, he has focused on the
Asian American community and has written and spoken nationally about
hate crimes, affirmative action, and lessons from the Japanese American
internment. He is a co-author of “Race, Rights, and Reparation:
The Law and the Japanese American Internment.” Steve Lilienthal
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 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. Melissa Ngo is Staff Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. She coordinates the EPIC Spotlight on Surveillance project, which scrutinizes federal and state surveillance programs. Her work also focuses upon federal and state identification proposals and their impact on American citizens and immigrant communities. She previously worked as a journalist at USATODAY.com and the Washington Post. Stephanie Perrin
Rob Randhava has been a Counsel with the Leadership Conference on
Civil
Rights and the LCCR Education Fund since January 2001. He previously
worked as Counsel for Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), during the 106th
Congress, on House Judiciary Committee issues, and as a Special
Assistant for former Rep. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL). Rob worked on a
wide
array of civil rights and constitutional law issues during his stint
on
Capitol Hill, focusing in particular on immigration policy. At the
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and LCCR Education Fund, Rob
specializes in the area of immigration policy, election reform, and
many
other civil and human rights policy issues. 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 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) of "Information Privacy Law" (Aspen
Publishing 2003). Bruce Schneier is the Chief Technology Officer of Counterpane Internet
Security, Inc., the world leader in Managed Security Monitoring.
Counterpane provides security monitoring services to Fortune 2000
companies worldwide. He is the author of seven books on security
and cryptography, including his most recent book, “Beyond Fear:
Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.” His
first book, “Applied Cryptography,” has sold over 150,000
copies and is the definitive work in the field. Schneier designed
the Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms, and writes the influential “Crypto-Gram” monthly
newsletter.
Barbara Simons is co-chair of ACM’s US Public Policy Committee
(USACM), which she founded in 1993. She was President of ACM, the
premier organization for computing professionals, from July 1998
until June 2000. An expert on electronic voting, Dr. Simons was a
member of the National Workshop on Internet Voting that was convened
at the request of President Clinton and produced a report on Internet
Voting in 2001. She is also participating on the Security Peer Review
Group for the US Department of Defense’s Secure Electronic
Registration and Voting (SERVE) Project. Dr. Simons is a Fellow of
ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Robert Ellis Smith is a journalist who uses his training as an attorney
to report on the individual's right to privacy. Since 1974, he has
published “Privacy Journal,” a monthly newsletter on
privacy in a computer age based in Providence, R.I. Smith is the
author of “Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from
Plymouth Rock to the Internet,” the first and only published
history of privacy in the U.S. He is also the author of “Our
Vanishing Privacy,” “The Law of Privacy Explained,” and “Privacy:
How to Protect What's Left of It.”
Professor Solove is an associate professor of law at the George
Washington University Law School. Professor Solove writes in the
areas of information privacy law, cyberspace law, law and literature,
jurisprudence, legal pragmatism, and constitutional theory. His articles
have appeared in many journals, including the Stanford Law Review,
Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Minnesota
Law Review, and Southern California Law Review, among others.
Paul R.Q. Wolfson's practice focuses on Supreme Court and appellate
litigation, and on advising clients on complex issues of federal
law, especially constitutional law. Prior to joining the firm, Mr.
Wolfson worked for eight years in the Solicitor General’s Office,
where he received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service
Award for “exemplary representation of the United States before
the Supreme Court.” Many of his cases in the Supreme Court
involved major ERISA, labor and employment-law issues. He also prepared
briefs for the government in leading First Amendment communications
law cases. |
