National Security Investigations Disclosure Requests and Your Customer Data: What You Need to Know

Hugo Teufel III
Former Chief Privacy Officer
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Hugo Teufel III is former Chief Privacy Officer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, having left the Department on January 20, 2009. Appointed by Secretary Michael Chertoff on July 23, 2006, Teufel had primary responsibility for privacy policy at the Department. Additionally, he served as one of two Department principals on the joint US/EU High Level Contact Group and he chaired the Chief Information Officer Council's cyber security subcommittee. Teufel interacted on a regular basis with Congressional committees and staff, private sector privacy professionals, the privacy advocacy community, and various international data protection authorities. Additionally, Teufel served as the Department’s Chief Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer, and was responsible for assuring consistent agency-wide statutory program compliance and policy implementation.

Before joining the Privacy Office, Teufel served as the first Associate General Counsel for General Law at the Department. Previously, Teufel served as the Associate Solicitor for General Law at the Department of the Interior. In each position, Teufel oversaw the provision of legal advice and counsel to a cabinet-level agency on privacy and FOIA matters. Previously, Teufel practiced law at Hall and Evans, in Denver, Colorado; served as Deputy Solicitor General for the State of Colorado; was an associate at McKenna & Cuneo, in Denver, Colorado; and was a clerk to Chief Judge Loren A. Smith of the U.S. Claims Court.

Teufel has an M.A. in national security studies from the Naval War College and a J.D. from the Washington College of Law of the American University, where he was the Senior Articles Editor of The Administrative Law Journal. Teufel lives in Virginia, is married, and has two daughters.

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Gregory T. Nojeim
Senior Counsel, Director, Project on Freedom, Security & Technology
Center for Democracy and Technology

Gregory T. Nojeim is a Senior Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Director of its Project on Freedom, Security & Technology. CDT is a Washington-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. In this capacity, Mr. Nojeim conducts much of CDT’s work in the areas of national security, terrorism, and Fourth Amendment protections. Nojeim is also Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee on National Security and Civil Liberties of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association.

Nojeim works to limit the threat to privacy posed by governmental wiretapping and monitoring of Internet communications. He was instrumental in bringing together the broad coalition of groups from across the political spectrum that worked to strip overly intrusive wiretapping proposals from the 1996 anti-terrorism law. He has substantial expertise on the application of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and on the civil liberties protections it affords. Other areas of his expertise include governmental data mining, the PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the privacy implications of aviation security measures.

Prior to joining CDT in May 2007, Mr. Nojeim was for five years a Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union and for seven years the Associate Director and Chief Legislative Counsel of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office. There, he was responsible for analyzing the civil liberties implications of federal legislation relating to terrorism, national security, immigration and informational privacy. He frequently testified before congressional committees and the various commissions Congress establishes on anti-terrorism legislation and aviation security legislation. Nojeim testified before Congress about counter-terrorism proposals following the September 11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing, the use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings, driver’s license privacy, aviation security profiling and intrusive body-scan technologies and the threat to civil liberties posed by national ID cards.

Mr. Nojeim also served for four years the Director of Legal Services of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). He conducted much of ADC's work in the immigration, civil rights, and human rights areas. Mr. Nojeim was employed for five years as an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart (now Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP) where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and international trade. He was graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Rochester in 1981, where he studied Political Science. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1985 and sat on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Journal of International Law.

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Doron Rotman
Managing Director, Advisory Services, National Privacy Service Leader
KPMG LLP

Mr. Rotman is a Managing Director in KPMG's Advisory Services practice with over 20 years of experience. Mr. Rotman is focused on providing Privacy and Information Governance Services. He is the national privacy service leader, a member of KPMG’s national Privacy Leadership Council and a member of KPMG International Privacy Leadership team. He has extensive high tech, financial services, manufacturing and government industry knowledge, both in the information technology and the accounting and finance aspects.

Mr. Rotman received a MSc. degree in Finance and Accounting and a BA. (Magna Cum Laude) degree in Accounting & Economics from the University of Tel Aviv, Israel He .is a CPA (Israel), a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA),. He is a member of ISACA, the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). He has made numerous presentations is the US and around the world pertaining to US and global data privacy issues and has authored professional papers on privacy and other subjects. Mr. Rotman is a member of the AICPA\CICA Enterprise Wide Privacy Taskforce that developed the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles, a global privacy standard. He is also a member of the IAPP Education Board, the US Department of Commerce delegation to APEC, and the state of California task force to study the use of Social Security numbers by California colleges and universities.

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Peter F. McLaughlin, CIPP
Senior Counsel
Foley & Lardner LLP

Peter McLaughlin is senior counsel with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Privacy, Security & Information Management Practice. His experience as a corporate lawyer and business advisor includes international privacy, IT compliance, IT transactions, and information security. Prior to joining Foley, Mr. McLaughlin was in-house counsel for over eight years, including two years as assistant general counsel and the first global privacy leader for Cardinal Health, Inc., a Fortune 20 company. Mr. McLaughlin received his J.D. from Georgetown Law Center and his bachelor's degree from Columbia University. Mr. McLaughlin is a Certified Information Protection Professional (CIPP).

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