Jim Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies
Cato Institute
As director of information policy studies, Jim Harper focuses on the difficult problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. Harper is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. His work has been cited by USA Today, the Associated Press, and Reuters. He has appeared on Fox News Channel, CBS, and MSNBC, and other media. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Administrative Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, and the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Harper is the editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think tank devoted exclusively to privacy, and he maintains online federal spending resource WashingtonWatch.com. He holds a J.D. from Hastings College of the Law.
Appearances
- Radio Frequency in Document Identification Roundtable Discussion On Passports, Real ID, and Other Digital IDs December 14, 2006
- Warehousing Consumers' Online Travels To Catch Child Predators and Terrorists: Privacy Implications? October 5, 2006
Biography last updated October 2006