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Pam Dixon

Pam Dixon is an author, researcher, and the executive director and founder of the World Privacy Forum, an internationally recognized non-profit public interest research group focused on conducting research on societal and human rights topics, particularly those where privacy intersects with technology. Dixon has written seven books for major publishers and has published hundreds of articles, as well as influential privacy research and studies. Her work focuses on emerging issues, and often intersects with technology-related issues. She has testified before U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and before many other legislative and regulatory bodies.

Dixon's work in privacy includes substantive longitudinal research studies which are much-cited and highly regarded, as well as journal articles and testimony before lawmakers and state and federal agencies, as well as work with the international community. Dixon speaks frequently as an expert lecturer in the US and abroad. She also works with other NGOs to create consensus on key issues in privacy. Dixon's research studies have led to the creation of new consumer protection laws at the federal and state level.

Dixon's current research work in privacy is focused in the area of health, online privacy, workplace, and data flows (including Internet and trans-border data flows). Her work often breaks critical new ground, for example, she was the first to explore the topic of medical identity theft, documenting the crime and its impact on victims for the first time in a major report. In addition to her national and international work at the World Privacy Forum, Dixon serves as co-chair of the California Privacy and Security Advisory Board, a state level board which reports to the California Secretary of Health. She is also on the board of HITSP, the national Health Information Technology Standards Panel.

Prior to founding the World Privacy Forum, Dixon was a researcher at the Denver University School of Law's Privacy Foundation.

ConPolicy cooperates with Pam and the World Privacy Forum on questions relating to privacy and data protection.