Wiretapping The Internet:
Is VoIP Different?
May 20, 2004
Panelists
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Stewart A. Baker, Partner
Steptoe & Johnson
Stewart A. Baker is a partner with the Washington, DC-based law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. His practice includes technology, international law and trade, international arbitration, and appellate litigation.
Technology
Described by The Washington Post (November 20, 1995) as "one of the most techno-literate lawyers around," Stewart Baker's practice includes issues relating to digital commerce, electronic surveillance, encryption, privacy, national security, and export controls.
International Law and Trade
Stewart Baker's practice includes issues relating to government regulation of international trade in high-technology products, and advice and practice under the antidumping and countervailing duty laws of United States, European Community, Canada and Australia. He also counsels clients on issues involving foreign sovereign immunity, and compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
International Arbitration
Stewart Baker has handled the arbitration of claims exceeding a billion dollars, is a member of national and international rosters of arbitrators, and is the author of articles and a book on the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law arbitration rules.
Appellate Litigation
In addition to having filed many Supreme Court and appellate briefs, Stewart Baker founded the State and Local Legal Center, which represents state and local governments before the Court; he is currently Chair of the Center's Advisory Board. His writings on appellate and constitutional issues have been cited in opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States. His brief opposing the federal government in New York v. United States, 488 US 1041 (1992), was described by Solicitor General Walter Dellinger as "one of the most influential amicus briefs ever filed in the Supreme Court."
James X. Dempsey, Executive Director
Center for Democracy & Technology
Jim Dempsey joined CDT at the beginning of 1997. He became Executive Director in 2003. In addition to day-to-day management responsibilities, he works on privacy and electronic surveillance issues and heads CDT's international project, the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI).
Prior to joining CDT, Mr. Dempsey was Deputy Director of the Center for National Security Studies. From 1995 to 1996, Mr. Dempsey also served as special counsel to the National Security Archive, a non-governmental organization that uses the Freedom of Information Act to gain the declassification of documents on the U.S. foreign policy.
From 1985 to 1994, Mr. Dempsey was assistant counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. His primary areas of responsibility for the Subcommittee were oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, privacy and civil liberties. He worked on issues at the intersection of national security and constitutional rights, including terrorism, counterintelligence, and electronic surveillance as well as crime issues, including the federal death penalty, remedies for racial bias in death sentencing, information privacy, and police brutality. Mr. Dempsey has traveled extensively outside the U.S. to speak on civil liberties issues and consult with government officials and human rights organizations.
From 1980 to 1984, Mr. Dempsey was an associate with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he practiced in areas of government and commercial contracts, energy law, and anti-trust. He also maintained an extensive pro bono representation of death row inmates in federal habeas proceedings. He clerked for the Hon. Robert Braucher of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Mr. Dempsey is author of several articles on Internet policy, including Communications Privacy In The Digital Age: Revitalizing The Federal Wiretap Laws To Enhance Privacy, and co-author of the book Terrorism & the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security (2002) (with Prof. David Cole of Georgetown law school).
Praveen Goyal, Senior Counsel for Government and Regulatory Affairs
Covad Communications
Praveen Goyal is Senior Counsel for Government and Regulatory Affairs at Covad Communications, the leading competitive nationwide broadband service provider, in its Washington, D.C. office. He joined Covad in June of 2002. In that capacity, he is responsible for Covad's federal regulatory advocacy, including development and execution of Covad's regulatory and legislative strategy. Prior to joining Covad, Goyal worked as an attorney in the Wireline Competition Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. Goyal holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School and a Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) from Yale College.
Anthony Michael Rutkowksi, Vice President for Regulatory Affairs
VeriSign, Inc.
Currently the Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs within the Telecommunication Services Division at VeriSign, Inc. - the leading global provider of trusted infrastructure and identity services for the Internet, telecommunications, and ECommerce sectors. A highly visible and well-known global enterprise strategist, public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer, and author in both the Internet and telecom worlds - with a career spanning 30 years of diverse positions in the business, public, and education sectors, in many different facets of the computer networking, telecom, publishing, and mass media industries, domestically and internationally. This includes employment with: General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, Evening News Association, the Federal Communications Commission, the International Telecommunication Union, Cape Canaveral City Council, Internet Society, MIT, and NY Law School, as well as consulting with NGI Associates.
He is an engineer-lawyer who extensively uses and innovates with many of these technologies; and developed a career of following strategically important developments and turning them into business opportunities.
He currently serves President of the Global LI Industry Forum and chair of the OASIS LI-XML Technical Committee, and participates in numerous Lawful Access and Interception forums. He also participates on the advisory boards for Telecommunications Policy and Info magazines.
Over recent years he has participated in such diverse activities a Guest Editor of the IEEE Internet Computing special Millennium Edition, co-producer of the Global Next Generation Internet Conference, and a columnist for Communications Week International; co-founded diverse international organizations: Internet Law and Policy Forum (founding member), and has participated in Internet projects preparing reports by the Aspen Institute, the Rand Corp, the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (Board), Register of Copyrights, the President's Framework for Global Electronic Commerce task force, and the Harvard Kennedy School GII Project. Featured twice in the Washington Post, and listed in the 1996 roundup issue of Inter@ctive Week as one the 25 "Driving Forces of Cyberspace," and recognized at the White House in the USA. and internationally for analyzing and shaping the global commercial, public policy, legal, economic, and societal directions.
Michael Warren, President
fiducianet
Mike Warren brings more than 34 years of electronic surveillance expertise to fiducianet. He retired after 29 years as a special agent and senior executive of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in September 2000, and since that time has been a consultant to the Telecommunications Industry on matters relating to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act ("CALEA") and electronic surveillance law and policy.
As the former chief of the FBI's CALEA Implementation Section, Mr. Warren identified the agency's law enforcement priorities for implementing CALEA. He developed the FBI's initiative for deferred deployment of CALEA technical capability (the Flexible Deployment Program) and directed negotiations with telecommunications carriers and equipment manufacturers to contain costs by developing nationwide Right-to-Use (RTU) license agreements for CALEA compliant software. The success of Mr. Warren's strategies won him the Attorney General's year 2000 Award for Excellence in Management.
Mr. Warren formed fiducianet in January 2002, to provide telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers and cable operators an end-to-end solution for meeting law enforcements' demands for the production of their customer's records and lawful communications interception. Today's business environment demands innovative and cost effective solutions. Outsourcing these non-core, non-revenue generating functions to fiducianet presents the opportunity to leverage the best people, processes and technology, resulting in improved efficiency, reduced legal risk and lower costs.