Mari Frank Interviews Deborah Pierce, Executive Director of Privacy Activism

Deborah is the Executive Director of PrivacyActivism. Her work focuses on consumer education campaigns, advocacy, and analysis of privacy issues, with particular emphasis on data flow, data matching, and privacy risks associated with data collection. In 2005, Deborah chaired the Association for Computing Machinery's Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference, bringing together attendees not only from government, business, education, and non-profits, but also from the community of computer professionals, hackers, crackers and engineers who work the code of cyberspace. Deborah is currently a member of the University of Washington's Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology Advisory Committee. She was a committee member of the Washington State Bar Association's Access to Justice, a committee formed to develop more detailed guidelines addressing the issue of the technological impact on privacy within the justice system. In her previous role as a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, she worked on issues related to electronic privacy, database information collection and personal identity. www.privacyactivism.org