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KIM TAIPALE
 Senior Fellow
Director, Global
Information Society Project
Expertise Information technology and policy; foreign intelligence surveillance; information warfare; data mining; cybercrime; surveillance society
Experience Kim Taipale is the founder and executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy (http://advancedstudies.org) - a private non-partisan research and advisory organization focused on information, technology, and national security policy. At the World Policy Institute he is the Director of the Global Information Society Project.
Mr. Taipale is a fellow at the Program on Law Enforcement and National Security in the Information Age (PLENSIA). He is also an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School where he teaches Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, and Digital Law Enforcement. Additionally, Mr. Taipale serves on the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age; the Science and Engineering for National Security Advisory Board of The Heritage Foundation; the LexisNexis Information Policy Forum; and the Steering Committee of the American Law Institute's digital information privacy project. Mr. Taipale is also a partner of Stilwell Holding LLC, a private investment firm specializing in the technology, media, communications, and engineered products industries and serves on the advisory board of Parkview Ventures, a technology focused merchant bank.
Mr. Taipale was previously the director of new media development for Columbia lnnovation Enterprise at Columbia University where he was earlier the associate director and a senior fellow at the Institute for Learning Technologies where he also taught graduate courses in communications. Prior thereto, Mr. Taipale was a vice president, and a managing director of the London office, of Lazard Frères & Company, investment bankers. Earlier he was the senior corporate development officer of The Pullman Company, a Fortune 500 technology, transportation, defense, and aerospace manufacturing company (acquired by Forstman Little), and, prior thereto, a lawyer with the firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Mr. Taipale is a frequent invited speaker, has appeared before Congressional and other national committees, and is the author of numerous academic papers, journal articles, and book chapters on information, technology, and national security issues. He has extensive professional experience in a wide variety of diverse endeavors and with many kinds of complex issues and transactions. He has worked with international and national corporations, government agencies and other public institutions, as well as start-up companies and not-for-profit organizations. He has served on the board or advisory board of several companies and non-profit organizations.
Mr. Taipale has also helped develop, secure funding for, and implement a number of non-profit information technology related projects, including the Harlem Environmental Access Project, the Advanced Media in Education Project, and others.
Education
J.D., New York University M.A., Communications, Columbia University Ed.M, Communications, Columbia University
LL.M, Columbia Law
School
Contact http://s94100219.onlinehome.us/tinc?key=OtCtYatw
SELECTED ARTICLES
Coming soon... in the meantime, review a select number of recent publications here - http://www.information-retrieval.info/taipale/#Anchor-49575
Privacy vs. Security? Security HuffingtonPost. November 9, 2007.
Interview with Government Computer News (GCN), January 22, 2007.
"Rethinking Foreign Intelligence Surveillance," World Policy Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2006/07.
MEDIA
Appeared on the PBS program Nanotechnology: Privacy and Security (PBS April 2008).
Discussed
Are the Telecoms Complicit in Wiretapping?
as part of
Justice Talking: The Tension Between Security and Liberty in the War
on Terror
on National Public Radio (NPR) (Mar. 3, 2008). (audio
available) Appeared on Digital Age with James Goodale to discuss Encryption and Information Security (WNYE-PBS) on January 16, 2008. Video here.
Appeared on Digital Age with James Goodale: Will the CIA Ever Learn to Blog? (WNYE-PBS) on March 18, 2007 (also Jul. 1, 2007) Video here.
LECTURES & APPEARANCES
Kim Taipale keynoted Security in the Global Marketplace, Forbes CEO Breakfast Series, November 15, 2007.
Debated "Privacy vs. National Security" as part of the Miller Center on Public Affairs National Debate Series, Washington, DC, November. 13, 2007.
Presented Seeking Symmetry on the Information Front: Confronting Global Jihad on the Internet, (16 Nat'l Strategy F. Rev. 14) New York, NY, May 23, 2007.
Testimony, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Modernization: Reconciling Signals Intelligence Activity with Targeted Wiretapping, before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) Hearing on The Foreign Intelligence Modernization Act of 2007, May 1, 2007.
Discussed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance at the NYLS Media Law & Policy conference at the New York City Bar Association, March 29, 2007.
Kim Taipale testified on the Privacy Implications of Government Data Mining Programs before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, January 10, 2007. [HTML] [PDF]
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