Ari Schwartz

ari@cdt.org

Ari Schwartz is an Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Ari's work focuses on defending and building privacy protections in the digital age by advocating for increased individual control over personal information. He also works on expanding access to government information via the Internet and online advocacy and civil society. Ari is a leading expert on the issue of privacy on government Web sites and has testified before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on the issue. Ari was named to the 2003's Federal 100 -- the top executives from government, industry and academia who had the greatest impact on the government information systems community over the past year. He is the Chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's Platform for Privacy Practices (P3P) Policy and Outreach Working Group - the leading standards setting body for Web technologies - and Co-Chair of the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Task Force on E-Government. Ari is also on the steering committee of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference and is a past Chair of the Conference.

Prior to working at CDT, Ari worked at OMB Watch researching and analyzing the nonprofit sector's engagement in technology, government performance, access to government information, and government information technology policy.

2002 Publications

• Dec. 2, 2002, Federal Computer Week, Privacy made simple for high-tech minds
• November 11, 2002, Federal Times, "Public Demands Online Privacy Standards"
• Sept. 5, 2002, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on "Driver's License Security Issues"
• August 23, 2002, Chicago Tribune, Getting to know all about you: Japanese privacy protests offer lesson for U.S. (Registration Required)
• July 17, 2002, Testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism on "Reauthorization of the Federal Trade Commission."
• July 15, 2002, Federal Computer Week, E-Government Act Essential
• January 11, 2002, The TRUSTe Advocate, P3P Basics

2001 Publications

• August 6, 2001, Federal Computer Week, P3P Basics
• July-August 2001, Consumer Action News, "Privacy Now"
• May 14, 2001, Federal Computer Week, Bush Sends Bad Message
• April 16, 2001, Peer to Peer in Practice
• March, 2001, Editor, Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Briefing Book on E-Government
• March 2001, Communications of the ACM, "A larger role in the public policy process for user control"
• March 13, 2001, Testimony before the Federal Trade Commission on "Utilizing Privacy Controls in Data Transfer Technologies."
• March 12, 2001, Federal Computer Week, "Privacy at the Crossroads"
• January 22, 2001, Federal Computer Week, "A Supreme effort"

2000 Publications

• December 11, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "An unseemly 60-day rule"
• October 30, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "A law in need of a new look"
• September 11, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Comment: Mirror, mirror on the Web"
• August 21, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Give privacy post some clout"
• July 3, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "When the 'cookie' crumbles"
• May 15, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Public Records: Privacy/access trade-offs"
• April 24, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Making Government Documents Smarter"
• April 12, 2000, Testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee On Government Management, Information and Technology on HR 4049, the Privacy Commission Act.
• April 10, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "A Checklist for Government Digital Signature Projects"
• Computers, Freedom, & Privacy 2000 Conference Paper "Your Place or Mine?: Privacy Concerns and Solutions for Server and Client-Side Storage of Personal Information"
• March 28, 2000, P3P and Privacy: An Update for the Privacy Community
• March 13, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Making the Web Safe"
• January 24, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Guarding Privacy"