Katherine Albrecht
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Katherine Albrecht, EdD is the founder of CASPIAN
(Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. She is a consumer privacy advocate and anti-RFID spokesperson. Albrecht came up with the term "spy chips" to describe RFID microchip tags, which for example are embedded in some US Driver's Licenses. She holds a Doctor of Education
degree from Harvard University
. Katherine Albrecht is a resident of Nashua
, New Hampshire
.
Albrecht was interviewed about RFID chips in Aaron Russo
's 2006 documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism
.
Surveillance Iceberg." Denver University Law Review, Volume 79,
Issue 4, Summer 2002. pp. 534–539 and 558–565. See: http://www.spychips.com/documents/Albrecht-Denver-Law.pdf
Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Consumer Products. Co-authored with Liz McIntyre and Beth Givens. November 14, 2003.
Full text at: http://www.spychips.com/jointrfid_position_paper.html
RFID: The Doomsday Scenario. In RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy, eds. S. Garfinkel and B. Rosenberg. New Jersey: Addison Wesley. 2006. pp. 259–273.
Amazon listing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321290968/
RFID: The Big Brother Bar Code (Co-authored with Liz McIntyre)
ALEC Policy Forum, Winter 2004, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 49–54.
Full text at: http://www.spychips.com/alec-big-brother-barcode-article.html
.com to help raise awareness for the privacy-friendly meta-search engine. She is responsible for strategy, execution, and management of all media communications and marketing initiatives in the US.
CASPIAN
Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering is a USA grass-roots consumer group dedicated to fighting supermarket "loyalty" or frequent shopper cards. CASPIAN's efforts are directed at educating consumers, condemning marketing strategies that invade shoppers' privacy, and...
(Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. She is a consumer privacy advocate and anti-RFID spokesperson. Albrecht came up with the term "spy chips" to describe RFID microchip tags, which for example are embedded in some US Driver's Licenses. She holds a Doctor of Education
Doctor of Education
The Doctor of Education or Doctor in Education degree , in Latin, Doctor Educationis, is a research-oriented professional doctorate that prepares the student for academic, administrative, clinical, or research positions in educational, civil, and private organizations.-Differences between an Ed.D...
degree from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. Katherine Albrecht is a resident of Nashua
Nashua
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, New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
.
Albrecht was interviewed about RFID chips in Aaron Russo
Aaron Russo
Aaron Russo was an American entertainment businessman, movie producer and director, and political activist. He was best-known for producing such blockbuster movies as Trading Places, Wise Guys, and The Rose...
's 2006 documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism
America: From Freedom to Fascism
America: Freedom to Fascism is a 2006 film by Aaron Russo, covering many subjects, including: the Internal Revenue Service , the income tax, Federal Reserve System, national ID cards , human-implanted RFID tags , Diebold electronic voting machines, globalization, Big Brother, taser weapons abuse,...
.
Books
Albrecht and Liz McIntyre (CASPIAN's communications director) co-authored the book Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID, which won the November 2005 Lysander Spooner Award for advancing the literature of liberty. The book lays out the potential implications of RFID on privacy and civil liberties. RFID industry representatives have criticized it, claiming the authors exaggerate some RFID privacy threats. In a lengthy rebuttal, Albrecht asked why critics don't "mention sworn patent documents from IBM describing ways to secretly follow innocent people in libraries, theaters, and public restrooms through the RFID tags in their clothes and belongings? Where is […] outrage over BellSouth's patent-pending plans to pick through our garbage and skim the data contained in the RFID tags we discard?"Articles and papers
Albrecht, Katherine."Supermarket Cards: The Tip of the RetailSurveillance Iceberg." Denver University Law Review, Volume 79,
Issue 4, Summer 2002. pp. 534–539 and 558–565. See: http://www.spychips.com/documents/Albrecht-Denver-Law.pdf
Position Paper on the Use of RFID in Consumer Products. Co-authored with Liz McIntyre and Beth Givens. November 14, 2003.
Full text at: http://www.spychips.com/jointrfid_position_paper.html
RFID: The Doomsday Scenario. In RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy, eds. S. Garfinkel and B. Rosenberg. New Jersey: Addison Wesley. 2006. pp. 259–273.
Amazon listing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321290968/
RFID: The Big Brother Bar Code (Co-authored with Liz McIntyre)
ALEC Policy Forum, Winter 2004, Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 49–54.
Full text at: http://www.spychips.com/alec-big-brother-barcode-article.html
Radio talk show host
Along with her work for CASPIAN, Albrecht is also a radio talk show host. She hosted a two-hour daily program called "Uncovering the Truth with Katherine Albrecht" on the We The People Radio Network (WTPRN) from April 2007 until the network ceased all programming in October 2008. Albrecht was the first former WTPRN host to carry on elsewhere with a syndicated program, now broadcasting "The Dr. Katherine Albrecht show" on the GCN Radio network.Media Relations for Ixquick
On January 27, 2008, Dr. Katherine Albrecht became Head US Media Relations for IxquickIxquick
Ixquick is a metasearch engine based in New York and the Netherlands. Ixquick was founded by David Bodnick in 1998, from New York...
.com to help raise awareness for the privacy-friendly meta-search engine. She is responsible for strategy, execution, and management of all media communications and marketing initiatives in the US.