Distinguished Lecturer

Julie Brill 
Commissioner 
Federal Trade Commission

Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill works on issues of critical importance to consumers, including protecting consumer privacy, encouraging appropriate advertising substantiation, guarding consumers from fraud and maintaining competition in high-tech and healthcare industries. An advocate for protecting consumer privacy, especially in online and mobile technologies, she supports ways to provide consumers with better information and control over collection and use of personal online information, recognizing the need to introduce practical solutions rooted in consumer protection while maintaining competition. Commissioner Brill also focuses on the need to improve consumer protection in financial services, advocating improved regulations and enforcement in credit reporting, debt collection and fraud.

Before becoming Commissioner, Ms. Brill was the Senior Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the North Carolina Department of Justice. She has also been a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University's School of Law. For more than 20 years, she was Assistant Attorney General for Consumer Protection and Antitrust for the State of Vermont. She also served as a Vice-Chair of the Consumer Protection Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and Chair of the National Association of Attorneys General Privacy Working Group. Commissioner Brill is the recipient of the National Association of Attorneys General Marvin Award, Privacy International's Brandeis Award for her work on state and federal privacy, and the National Association of Attorneys General's Privacy Award. Prior to her career in law enforcement, Commissioner Brill was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University and from New York University School of Law, where she received a Root-Tilden Scholarship for her commitment to public service.

Distinguished Panel

Jennifer Barrett Glasgow
Global Privacy and Public Policy Executive
Acxiom Corporation

Jennifer Glasgow provides oversight of Acxiom Corporation's global public policy, privacy and information practices, directing the company's global information use policy, internal compliance, industry guidelines, and consumer and government affairs. Recognized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as the profession's first Chief Privacy Officer, she is an IAPP Vanguard winner, the highest honor given by the association. Glasgow has participated in numerous international efforts to influence public policy and introduce best practice. Active on industry boards and councils, she sits on the US Direct Marketing Association Safe Harbor Ethics Committee and co-chairs the Mobile Marketing Association's Privacy and Advocacy Committee. She is on the board of the Foundation for Information Accountability and Governance, advisory board for the Future of Privacy Forum and Political and Economic Research Council. Elected to the Arkansas Academy of Computing, Glasgow lectures on privacy at the University of Arkansas, University of Texas at Austin, and George Mason University. She earned her degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the UT Chancellor's Council and the school's College of Natural Science Foundation Advisory Council.

Julia Angwin
Technology Journalist
The Wall Street Journal

A Wall Street Journal technology reporter, Julia Angwin leads a privacy investigative team that was a Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting and in 2010 won a Gerald Loeb Award. In 2003, she was on a Wall Street Journalteam awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. Angwin earned her BA in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and her MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. The author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America(Random House, March 2009), she is now at work on Tracked, a book covering online privacy, to be published by Times Books next year.

Daniel Weitzner
Director
MIT, CSAIL Decentralized Information Group

Daniel Weitzner is Director of MIT's CSAIL Decentralized Information Group. He also teaches Internet public policy in the school's Computer Science Department. Earlier, he was US Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House, where he led initiatives on privacy, cybersecurity, Internet copyright and trade policies, promoting the free flow of information. Weitzner has made significant contributions, promoting online free expression protection, in briefs to the Supreme Court as well as supported laws that control government surveillance of email and web-browsing data. Weitzner was founder and Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology and Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 2012, he was named by Newsweek/Daily Beast's Digital Power Index as a top global Internet public policy "Navigator."