Security or Surveillance: The Potential Impact of Radio Frequency Identification Technology on Privacy Rights

Speakers

Liz McIntyre

Liz McIntyre is a consumer privacy expert and co-author of a series of books about the societal implications of microchip tracking technology, including Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move. This explosive book reveals how organizations like Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart, Gillette, and even the U.S. Government are deploying tiny computer chips that can keep close tabs on everyday objects—and even people.

McIntyre regularly speaks and writes about the financial, privacy, and civil liberties impacts that new technologies like RFID will have on consumers. She serves as the Communications Director for CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), an organization that advocates free-market, consumer-based solutions to the problem of retail privacy invasion. In this role, she has been the master strategist for many of the organization's most successful media campaigns.

McIntyre is a fixture on the talk radio circuit and has been a guest expert on shows like Forbes, Allan Handelman, Thom Hartmann, Greg Allen, CBC Radio, Coast to Coast, BBC Radio, WBAI's "Law and Disorder," and Kiss FM's "Open Line." She has logged hundreds of hours of airtime with her proven ability to captivate audiences and generate listener calls.

Her TV appearances include Democracy Now!, CNBC Squawkbox, Fox & Friends, and other programs where she has discussed new applications of microchip technology, like the chipping of U.S. passports and proposed injection of VeriChip human implants into military personnel, the elderly, and immigrants.

McIntyre, aka the MoneyMom®, is also known for her past work as a syndicated family money writer and columnist. A former bank examiner and CPA, McIntyre brings meticulous research skills and a keen investigative eye to her reporting on corporate policy-making and bureaucratic misdeeds.

Patrick J. Sweeney

Patrick is a proven entrepreneur and technology visionary. He is the author of two industry-leading books - RFID for Dummies and the CompTIA RFID+ Study Guide. He is well-recognized as a thought leader in the RFID industry with a patent on RFID performance accuracy and visibility, and several more patents in various stages of approval. He has been interviewed in CIO Magazine, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine and ABC News, among others. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and on web casts. His combination of technical and business background help him form the vision and understand the direction of the emerging RFID industry; his involvement in many governing bodies and standards committees effectively transfers those ideas into policy.

In the late 90’s he founded ServerVault, a secure managed hosting company, and led the company as CEO, through fourteen quarters of consecutive sales growth. At ServerVault, he recruited world-class talent, developed novel technologies and earned loyal customer relationships from the likes of CapitalOne, Hartford Life Insurance, Raytheon, the NFL and scores of others. He successfully sold ServerVault to affiliates of Western & Southern Financial Group.

Patrick graduated from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, where he currently sits on the Alumni Board. He received his bachelor of science from the University of New Hampshire. He is the only North American member of Trinity College, Dublin’s Advisory Board, and is on the advisory group for RFID Business and a member of the AIM Global RFID Experts Group. Patrick is a champion rower, having won the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, the Norwegian World Cup and numerous World Cup events and finished second in the 1996 Olympic trials. Patrick believes in building companies based on innovation, integrity and a focus on client satisfaction.

Jay Stanely

Jay Stanley is the Public Education Director of the Technology and Liberty Program of the American Civil Liberties Union, where he researches, writes and speaks about privacy and technology issues. He is the author and co-author of several major ACLU reports on privacy. He has also spoken as a forceful advocate for privacy in many print, television and radio outlets around the country. Prior to joining the ACLU, Stanley was an analyst at the technology research firm Forrester, where he focused on public policy issues related to the Internet. Before Forrester, he was American politics editor at Facts On File. He is a graduate of Williams College and holds an MA in American History from the University of Virginia.

James P. Nehf

James P. Nehf has been teaching contracts, consumer law, and commercial law subjects for more than fifteen years. He is an internationally recognized expert in consumer privacy law and serves as an executive board member of the International Consumer Law Association, a society of consumer law scholars based in Toronto. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been a frequent speaker at law conferences, CLE seminars, and law-related lecture series. Professor Nehf was the inaugural director of the law school's European Law Program and has held several university administrative positions, including a term as interim director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. His publications include an updated and revised edition of CORBIN ON CONTRACTS - IMPOSSIBILITY, and numerous articles on privacy law, consumer law, commercial transactions and international/comparative law subjects.

Professor Nehf graduated first in his law school class, served as editor-in-chief of the NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW, and was elected to Order of the Coif. After law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Phyllis A. Kravitch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and entered private practice with O'Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. Before joining the faculty in 1989, he was a partner in the Washington firm of Choate, Filler, & Nehf, specializing in commercial and consumer litigation. In recent years, Professor Nehf has taught as a visiting professor at Wake Forest University and the University of Georgia.

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