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Fighting Internet Fraud:
Phishing, Spoofing, Spyware and Cyberquatters
NCSL Annual Meeting
Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce Committee
Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Salt Lake City, Utah

Speaker Biographies

Senator Carol Fukunaga, Hawaii
Senator Carol Fukunaga is Chair of the Economic Development Committee and is a member of the Human Services, Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, and Science, Arts, and Technology Committees in the Hawaii State Legislature.  She has served in the Senate since 1992 and was elected to the House from 1978 to 1982 and from 1986 to 1992.  She is a practicing attorney and received both her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate degrees from the University of Hawaii.  She is currently a Vice-Chair of the NCSL Communications, Technology and Interstate Commerce Committee.

Charles Stiles
Charles Stiles is the Postmaster of America Online, Inc.  His responsibilities include the management of day to day operations, oversight of the personnel running America Online’s anti-spam technologies, and providing up to date information on AOL’s anti-spam initiative to service providers, corporations, legislators, the public and mass-media.  Charles’ technical and management skills began with his service in the Oklahoma Air National guard as a Cable Communications Engineer with the designation of “Electronics Super-Ace” for his expertise in communication systems.  Charles joined America Online to serve AOL’s Member Services Department in September of 1996.  He relocated from Oklahoma City in 2000 to continue serving Member Services in AOL’s Network Operations Center.  In March of 2002, he began working on the anti-spam effort.  Charles has been working on AOL’s anti-spam initiative since its inception.  During this time his team has initiated real-time responses to current spam attacks and has begun taking a proactive stance in preventing future attacks.  Since taking the position of Postmaster, Charles has been instrumental in informing national and international media on the effects of spam, mail delivery, and the future of anti-spam initiatives.  Charles was instrumental in helping to prepare testimony and background information for the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on the effects of the CAN-SPAM Act.  He has also consulted for state, federal and international lawmakers on various implementations of anti-spam legislation.

Daniel A. Levy
Daniel A. Levy is the senior director for merchant risk at PayPal, the world’s online payment company.  PayPal, an eBay Company, enables any individual or business with an email address to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online.  Daniel joined PayPal in October 2001 and previously served as the director of fraud operations and director of product management.  As the head of PayPal’s merchant risk department, Daniel oversees PayPal’s global consumer protection programs for buyers and sellers and manages the company’s global merchant fraud operations and policy. He is responsible for driving the strategy, development, and operations for these programs.  Prior to joining PayPal, Daniel co-founded Just Arrive, Inc., a San Francisco-based electronic ticketing company where he also served as director of client services and was a member of the company’s board of directors.  Daniel received his bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University.  He resides in San Francisco.

Ari Schwartz
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 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.

Representative Stephen H. Urquhart
Stephen Urquhart is a member of the Utah House of Representatives and chair of the Public Utilities and Technology Committee.  He graduated from Williams College and Brigham Young University law school.  Steve practiced law with Morrison & Foerster in California and Washington and now practices law in St. George, Utah.  He also served as a judge pro tem in the Utah court system.  Steve is a Henry Toll Fellow through the Council of State Governments.

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