Which Way, L.A.?
Selling Privacy
Identity theft is America's fastest growing crime--what is it? And how are data-base collectors making money on your personal facts of life? Social Security numbers and mothers' maiden names don't work any more. Will fingerprints and eyeball scans be used to privacy protection or illegal discrimination?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readBruce Robertson: Founder of TriStar, a private investigation firm. Beth Givens: Director Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Author, the privacy rights handbook. David Medeen: Associate Director for credit practices, Federal Trade Commission. Robert Ellis-Smith: Publisher, The Privacy Journal. Steven Emmert: Director of public record policy and government affairs, Lexis Nexis. Assemblyman Kevin Murray: Democratic Assemblyman representing Los Angeles. Author of AB 50, which would regulate biometric identifiers. Jon Golinger: Consumer Advocate with CalPirg, an environmental and consumer activist organization. Helped write a bill, being introduced by Senator Steve Peace, that would ban banks from using one biometric identifier, the fingerprint. Carla Barboza: Attorney with Barboza and Associates, specializing in employment matters and experienced in sexual harassment law. Bob Bemer: Owner of B.M.R Software, a company that claims they have the answer to the year 2000 computer glitch. Early computer programmer, helped design COBOL, the world's dominant mainframe programming language.
