Alessandro Acquisti is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and a member of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. He is the co-director of CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR), and a member of the National Academies' Committee on public response to alerts and warnings using social media and associated privacy considerations. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Rome, Paris, and Freiburg (visiting professor); Harvard University (visiting scholar); and Microsoft Research (visiting researcher). For more information see: http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/
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Dymph van den Boom (1951) was appointed professor of Educational Theory at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 1996. In addition, she was dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences between 2001 and 2007. In October 2007, Van den Boom succeeded interim Rector Magnificus Jaap Zwemmer as Rector Magnificus and member of the Executive Board of the UvA and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences (HvA).
Van den Boom began her scholarly career as a developmental psychologist at Leiden University, where she obtained her PhD in 1988. She was appointed professor of Educational Theory at the UvA in 1996. Between 1997 and 2001, she was head of the Child Development and Education Department and vice dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences successively. For more information see: http://www.english.uva.nl/about_the_uva/object.cfm/5AB57F35-1321-B0BE-68F8A1542A9D0B9E
Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of both Media, Culture, and Communication and Computer Science at New York University, where she is also Coordinator and Senior Faculty Fellow of the Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span the social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media. Nissenbaum's research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy, politics, law, media studies, information studies, and computer science. She has written and edited four books, including Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life, which was published in 2010 by Stanford University Press. For more information see: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/
Peter Hustinx has served as EDPS since January 2004, contributing to the building of the new supervisory authority and developing its role at Community level. He was reappointed for a second five-year term of office in January 2009.
Prior to his appointment as EDPS, Mr Hustinx worked as the President of the Dutch Data Protection Authority as from 1991. Between 1996 and 2000, he was Chairman of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party.
His long standing experience in the field also extends to the broader European level; covering work as an expert in the Committee which prepared the Council of Europe Convention on data protection (No. 108). He also has data protection experience from the law enforcement field, having been Chairman of the Appeals Committee of the Joint Supervisory Body of Europol, and Chairman of the Commission for the Control of Interpol's Files. For more information see: http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/edps/site/mySite/Members
Prof. Regan has published over forty articles or book chapters, as well as Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy (University of North Carolina Press, 1995). As a recognized researcher in this area, Dr. Regan has testified before Congress and participated in meetings held by the Department of Commerce, Federal Trade Commission, Social Security Administration, and Census Bureau. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on Authentication Technologies and their Privacy Implications. Dr. Regan received her PhD in Government from Cornell University and her BA from Mount Holyoke College. For more information see: http://pia.gmu.edu/people/pregan
During the last 30 years, she has developed the “Communication Privacy Management” theory, publishing a book with State University of New York Press entitled, “Boundaries of Privacy: Dialectics of Disclosure” on this theory. This book has won the Gerald R. Miller Award from the National Communication Association in 2003 and the 2004 IARR book award from the International Association of Relationship Research.
She has expertise in health communication, interpersonal relations, and family communication. Professor Petronio has published five books, numerous articles in scholarly journals and book chapters, served as the first woman journal editor for the Western Journal of Communication (established in 1937) as well as editor for several special issues of Communication Research and the Journal of Applied Communication Research. In 2003 she published a book with LEA press on HIV/AIDS and disclosure with co-authors, Kathryn Greene, Val Derlega, and Gust Yep. For more information see: http://www.epsilen.com/petronio
