Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.
RFID and Consumer Privacy Expert
Award-winning Author, Speaker, Privacy Advocate
Founder & Director, CASPIAN Consumer Advocacy
Doctor of Education, Harvard University
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Partial List of Past Speaking Clients:
- AIDC 100 (Automatic Identification Industry Group); Stonybrook, New York
- Computers, Freedom, Privacy (CFP); New York, New York
- Experian Consumer Advisory Council; Washington, DC
- EPIC Privacy Coalition; Washington, DC
- ERIS Society; Aspen, Colorado
- FoeBuD, German Privacy Organization (Keynote); Bielefeld, Germany
- Freedom Summit; Manchester, New Hampshire
- Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Annual Symposium; Cambridge, MA
- Information Society Technology (IST) - European Union Conference; Milan, Italy
- Libertarian Party of New Hampshire; Concord, New Hampshire
- MIT RFID Privacy Conference (Organizer: Simson Garfinkel), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Pervasive Security, Privacy and Trust (Keynote); Cambridge, MA
- Porcupine Festival (Free State Project); Lancaster, New Hampshire
- RFID 2004 Conference; Washington, DC
- RFID Journal Live! Chicago, Illinois
- Rotary Club of New York; New York, New York
- Sixth Annual Security & Privacy Conference: Synergies in an e-Society; Victoria, B.C., Canada
- Southeastern Massachusetts Library System; Middleborough, MA
- University Club of New York; New York, New York
Testimonials:
"[Katherine Albrecht] is possibly the country's single most vocal privacy advocate and staunchest opponent of technologies that track consumers and their buying habits."
- Executive Technology Magazine
"[Katherine Albrecht leads] a group of activists who have taken on some of the world's biggest corporations and seemingly forced them into humiliating retreat."
- The Times of London
"Katherine Albrecht . . . has helped scuttle RFID tests and unearth embarrassing internal documents from technology backers, making her presence felt from Bentonville to Berlin . . . . Her efforts have helped get two of the world's biggest retailers to publicly disavow plans to use RFID chips on packages or consumer loyalty cards."
- Advertising Age
"Katherine Albrecht . . . is leading the charge against RFID. . . . [She] and other activists have forced companies to pay attention to them."
- The Washington Post
"From Wal-Mart stores in California to the Metro supermarket in Germany, CASPIAN and others have forced retailers to feel their pain or feel their wrath. Expect further concessions as privacy advocates flex their muscle."
- Business Week
"Katherine Albrecht is considered by many to be the leading expert on consumer privacy."
- Women's Wall Street
"Katherine Albrecht has been at the forefront of efforts to sound the alarm about the customer surveillance industry"
- Mother Jones
"Katherine Albrecht is a radio pro! I've had hundreds of guests on my show, but never has anyone kept every line lit for seven segments. In fact, I've never before even kept a guest longer than three segments.
"She owns her subject matter, she's great with callers, especially the oppositional critics. She was incredibly versatile. We took a different angle nearly every segment and, truly, we didn't lose one of my six lines from the first moment we asked for calls till after she was gone, and even then, we still had people calling in wanting to talk about things she said.
"... She was the closest I've ever had to The Perfect Guest."
- Frank Pastore, Host of The Frank Pastore Show
"... The consumer perspective was not fully considered when commercial use of RFID was being developed. ... CASPIAN was able to show that Gillette planned to photograph and track shoppers who picked up packs, from the aisle to the cash register..."
- Australian IT
"You were fantastic, Katherine. I love having you on, and can't wait until you come back. Great job!"
- Dr. Gianni DeVincent Hayes, Host of "The American Voice"
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