Omer Tene

Omer Tene

Omer Tene is an Associate Professor at the College of Management School of Law, Rishon Le Zion, Israel; Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society; and Visiting Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and the Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society.

He is Managing Director of Tene & Associates, where he consults the Israeli government, data protection authority and private sector businesses ranging from technology start-ups to Fortune 100 companies  in the financial, health, telecom, mobile and online industries on privacy, data protection and law and technology issues. He was appointed by the Israeli Minister of Justice as Member of the National Privacy Protection Council and is a member of the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum; European advisory board of IAPP; and Editorial Board of International Data Privacy Law (Oxford University Press). He headed the Steering Committee for the 32nd annual conference of privacy and data protection commissioners.

He is a graduate of the JSD and LL.M. programs at NYU School of Law and received an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as LL.M. and LL.B. degrees from Tel Aviv University. He was an associate at the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton and at the Paris office of Fried Frank and a Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, where he directed the Data Protection Group.

He published numerous articles about privacy and data protection, including:

[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, Me, Myself and I: Aggregated and Disaggregated Identities on Social Networking Services, __ J. Int’l Comm. L. & Tech. __ (forthcoming Fall 2011).[/li][/list]

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky, To Track or ‘Do Not Track’: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising, __ Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. __ (forthcoming Fall 2011).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene & Yucel Saygin, Privacy and Data Protection in Turkey: (Inching) Towards a European Framework, Privacy & Security Law Report (October 2011).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, The Complexities of Defining Personal Data: Anonymization 8(8) Data Protection Law & Policy 6 (2011).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, Privacy: The New Generations, 1 International Data Privacy Law 15 (2011).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, Reforming the Law from the Ground Up: Recent Developments in Israel’s Privacy Regulation, 9 (38) BNA Privacy & Security Law Report 1341 (2010).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, Israel’s Data Protection Reform: Reduce Bureaucracy; Increase Accountability, 10(1) Privacy & Data Protection Law 13 (2009).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, What Google Knows: Privacy and Internet Search Engines, 2008 Utah L. Rev. 1434 (2008).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, Israel’s New Anti Spam Law: Seller Beware, 96 Privacy Laws & Business 16 (2008).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Yoram Hacohen & Omer Tene, Transferral of Pension Fund Databases in Israel, 5(11) Data Protection L. & Pol’y 14 (2008).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, Israeli Data Protection Law: Constitutional, Statutory and Regulatory Reform, 8(1) Privacy and Data Protection 6 (2007).

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[list class=”bullet-4″][li]Omer Tene, Israel’s Data Protection Law: Registration, Transfers Abroad, Employment, 89 Privacy Laws & Business 16 (2007).

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Kenesa Ahmad

Kenesa Ahmad

Kenesa Ahmad is a legal and policy fellow at Future of Privacy Forum. She works on issues related to privacy and security, focusing on mobile application privacy. Prior to joining FPF, she received her law degree from the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University, where she served as an Articles Editor of the Ohio State Law Journal, and received her LLM from Northwestern University Law School. Kenesa is co-author of the IAPP Privacy Foundations certification book (forthcoming Fall 2012) and is admitted to the Virginia Bar.

Peter Swire

Peter P. Swire 

Peter P. Swire is the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor at the Scheller College of Business of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum, and also a fellow with the Center for American Progress and Center for Democracy and Technology. In November, 2012 he was named the co-chair of the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium, the Do Not Track process. He has been a recognized leader in privacy, cybersecurity, and the law of cyberspace for well over a decade, as a scholar, government official, and participant in numerous policy, public interest, and business settings. From 2009 to 2010 Professor Swire was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, serving in the National Economic Council under Lawrence Summers. From 1999 to early 2001 Professor Swire served as the Clinton Administration’s Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, as the only person to date to have government-wide responsibility for privacy issues. Among his other activities when at OMB, Swire was the White House coordinator for the HIPAA Medical Privacy Rule and chaired a White House Working Group on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet age. Professor Swire is lead author of the official texts for the Foundations and U.S. Law examinations for Certified Information Privacy Professionals. Many of his writings appear at www.peterswire.net.

Dec. 1, 2011 – Kids and Technology: Rules to Use, Washington Post

The survey firm Nielsen recently asked kids which electronics they wanted most this holiday season, and 44 percent put the iPad at the top of their list! Kids love technology, but they should know these important rules for using a mobile device:

Dec. 2, 2011 – Jules Polonetsky Discusses Applications for Holiday Shopping, WTKF-FM

Apps are becoming a popular tool for holiday shopping, but is the privacy of consumers at risk? Jules Polonetsky discussed the issue with Ben Ball on “Costal Daybreak” which airs on The Talk Station WTKF-FM in North Carolina. Listen here for the interview.