Ray Everett-Church
Encyclopedia
Ray Everett-Church is an American
attorney
, entrepreneur
and author
. He was dubbed "the dean of corporate Chief Privacy Officer
s" by Inter@ctive Week magazine, first creating that title and position in 1999 at online marketing company AllAdvantage
. In 1997, he was profiled by the New York Times as an influential advocate of responsible online advertising.
, and a 300-baud modem at age 14. A year later, he published his first article, writing for the Westview (a Nashville area community newspaper) and detailing his experiences as a youthful cracker of various early online services and WATS
systems.
He worked for the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, DC, where he first became involved with the issue of spam
as a result of the notorious "Green Card Lottery" spams sent by immigration lawyers Canter & Siegel
. That involvement was featured in a Wired Magazine article in 1999. He continued to work on the emerging issues of spam and Internet privacy as independent consultant, where his work included developing anti-spam policies and enforcement practices for America Online, and as an Associate at the telecommunications law firm of Haley Bader & Potts PLLC in Ballston
, Virginia
.
In 1999 he went to work for Internet infomediary AllAdvantage
where he, along with AllAdvantage
CEO Jim Jorgensen
, conceived of the corporate Chief Privacy Officer
position and helped define the privacy standards for the world's first implementation of a mass market infomediary
. He was also the Vice President for Public Policy at AllAdvantage
, where he managed lobbying and government relations, including the first piece of anti-spam legislation ever passed by the United States House of Representatives
. In April 2000, Everett-Church orchestrated a visit from then-President Bill Clinton
as the keynote speaker at a $1.1 Million fundraising event celebrating AllAdvantage
's first anniversary.
From 2001 to 2004, he served as Chief Privacy Officer
and Vice President for Consulting for Philadelphia-based ePrivacy Group
, a privacy consulting and anti-spam technology firm. While there he was part of the executive team that built anti-spam technology company TurnTide
Inc., which was sold to Symantec Corporation in 2004 for $28 million.
Although he has spent considerable time working with Internet start-up ventures, his clients have included many large organizations such as Pharmacia
, Pfizer
, Kimberly-Clark
, Intuit, Aventis
, Household/HSBC
, Microsoft
, the National Association of Home Builders
, Napster
, Ericsson
, Comcast
, United Parcel Service
, Hertz
, Inter-Continental Hotels, L.L. Bean, among others. He was also a founding board member of the Privacy Officers Association (now called the International Association of Privacy Professionals
) and a co-founder of the anti-spam Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
.
Publishing. He has also written chapters on privacy and online legal issues for The Internet Encyclopedia (2003) and The Handbook of Information Security (2006).
(where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper Broadside
) and a Juris Doctor
from The George Washington University Law School
. While in law school, he studied under Professor Jonathan Turley
, where he was on a litigation team challenging Black Bag Operations authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in espionage
cases against former CIA agent Harold J. Nicholson and former FBI agent Earl E. Pitts.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
attorney
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
. He was dubbed "the dean of corporate Chief Privacy Officer
Chief privacy officer
The Chief Privacy Officer is a senior level executive within a business or organization who is responsible for managing the risks and business impacts of privacy laws and policies...
s" by Inter@ctive Week magazine, first creating that title and position in 1999 at online marketing company AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first "infomediary" by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits...
. In 1997, he was profiled by the New York Times as an influential advocate of responsible online advertising.
Biography
Everett-Church combined computers, writing and security at an early age. He purchased his first computer, a Commodore 64Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
, and a 300-baud modem at age 14. A year later, he published his first article, writing for the Westview (a Nashville area community newspaper) and detailing his experiences as a youthful cracker of various early online services and WATS
Wide Area Telephone Service
In U.S. telecommunications, a Wide Area Telephone Service is a long distance service offering for customer dial-type telecommunications between a given customer [user] station and stations within specified geographic rate areas employing a single telephone line between the customer user location...
systems.
He worked for the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, DC, where he first became involved with the issue of spam
Spam (electronic)
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately...
as a result of the notorious "Green Card Lottery" spams sent by immigration lawyers Canter & Siegel
Canter & Siegel
-External links:* Ben Delisle, - 1994 Usenet post giving background on Canter and Siegel]* Ray Everett-Church, , Wired magazine, April 13, 1999* Sharael Feist, , CNET News, March 26, 2002* John M. Moran, , Hartford Courant, June 30, 2002...
. That involvement was featured in a Wired Magazine article in 1999. He continued to work on the emerging issues of spam and Internet privacy as independent consultant, where his work included developing anti-spam policies and enforcement practices for America Online, and as an Associate at the telecommunications law firm of Haley Bader & Potts PLLC in Ballston
Ballston, Virginia
Ballston is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia and is home to the Ballston-MU station on the Orange Line of the Metrorail subway system.-History:...
, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
.
In 1999 he went to work for Internet infomediary AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first "infomediary" by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits...
where he, along with AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first "infomediary" by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits...
CEO Jim Jorgensen
Jim Jorgensen
Jim Jorgensen is a serial entrepreneur. He has started over 25 enterprises since getting his MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business at the age of 24. Jorgensen’s industry selection for these new enterprises has been wide, running from retail to manufacturing, from Internet to mail order, and...
, conceived of the corporate Chief Privacy Officer
Chief privacy officer
The Chief Privacy Officer is a senior level executive within a business or organization who is responsible for managing the risks and business impacts of privacy laws and policies...
position and helped define the privacy standards for the world's first implementation of a mass market infomediary
Infomediary
An infomediary works as a personal agent on behalf of consumers to help them take control over information gathered about them for use by marketers and advertisers...
. He was also the Vice President for Public Policy at AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first "infomediary" by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits...
, where he managed lobbying and government relations, including the first piece of anti-spam legislation ever passed by the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
. In April 2000, Everett-Church orchestrated a visit from then-President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
as the keynote speaker at a $1.1 Million fundraising event celebrating AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage
AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first "infomediary" by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits...
's first anniversary.
From 2001 to 2004, he served as Chief Privacy Officer
Chief privacy officer
The Chief Privacy Officer is a senior level executive within a business or organization who is responsible for managing the risks and business impacts of privacy laws and policies...
and Vice President for Consulting for Philadelphia-based ePrivacy Group
EPrivacy Group
ePrivacy Group was a privacy consulting and anti-spam technology firm, founded in 2000 by David Brussin, Stephen Cobb, James Koenig, Michael Miora, and Vincent Schiavone. The team was later joined by privacy pioneers Ray Everett-Church, and Terry Pittman....
, a privacy consulting and anti-spam technology firm. While there he was part of the executive team that built anti-spam technology company TurnTide
TurnTide
TurnTide Inc. was an anti-spam technology company founded in 2004 and based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The firm was created as a spin-off corporation from privacy and anti-spam technology firm ePrivacy Group to bring to market the world's first anti-spam router...
Inc., which was sold to Symantec Corporation in 2004 for $28 million.
Although he has spent considerable time working with Internet start-up ventures, his clients have included many large organizations such as Pharmacia
Pharmacia
Pharmacia was a pharmaceutical and biotechnological company in Sweden.-History:Pharmacia was founded in 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden by pharmacist Gustav Felix Grönfeldt at the Elgen Pharmacy. The company is named after the Greek word φαρμακεία, transliterated pharmakeia, which means 'sorcery'...
, Pfizer
Pfizer
Pfizer, Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation. The company is based in New York City, New York with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States...
, Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark
Kimberly-Clark Corporation is an American corporation that produces mostly paper-based consumer products. Kimberly-Clark brand name products include "Kleenex" facial tissue, "Kotex" feminine hygiene products, "Cottonelle", Scott and Andrex toilet paper, Wypall utility wipes, "KimWipes"...
, Intuit, Aventis
Aventis
Aventis was a pharmaceutical and lab assay testing company. It was formed in 1999 when Rhône-Poulenc S.A. merged with Hoechst AG. The merged company was based in Strasbourg, France. With its headquarters in Strasbourg, Aventis was the product of the first transnational merger to combine large...
, Household/HSBC
HSBC
HSBC Holdings plc is a global banking and financial services company headquartered in Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom. it is the world's second-largest banking and financial services group and second-largest public company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine...
, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
, the National Association of Home Builders
National Association of Home Builders
The National Association of Home Builders is one of the largest trade associations in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, DC, NAHB's mission is "to enhance the climate for housing and the building industry...
, Napster
Napster
Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...
, Ericsson
Ericsson
Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
, Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
, United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service
United Parcel Service, Inc. , typically referred to by the acronym UPS, is a package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States, UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 220 countries and territories around the...
, Hertz
Hertz
The hertz is the SI unit of frequency defined as the number of cycles per second of a periodic phenomenon. One of its most common uses is the description of the sine wave, particularly those used in radio and audio applications....
, Inter-Continental Hotels, L.L. Bean, among others. He was also a founding board member of the Privacy Officers Association (now called the International Association of Privacy Professionals
International Association of Privacy Professionals
The International Association of Privacy Professionals , headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a global association of privacy and security professionals. With more than 9,000 individual and corporate members in 73 countries, the IAPP seeks to define, promote and improve the profession of...
) and a co-founder of the anti-spam Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
CAUCE
CAUCE, or the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, is a non-profit advocacy group that works to reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial email, or spam, via legislation. CAUCE was founded in 1997 by participants in the USENET newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email and the SPAM-L mailing...
.
Publications
Everett-Church co-authored Internet Privacy for Dummies (2002) and Fighting Spam for Dummies (2004), both part of the popular "...For Dummies" book series published by John Wiley & SonsJohn Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...
Publishing. He has also written chapters on privacy and online legal issues for The Internet Encyclopedia (2003) and The Handbook of Information Security (2006).
Education
Everett-Church holds a B.A. in International Studies from George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University
George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
(where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper Broadside
Broadside (newspaper)
-History:Broadside, George Mason University's official student newspaper, began its life as The Gunston Ledger. The Gunston Ledger, whose first issue appeared on the then George Mason College campus located in Bailey's Crossroads, VA on October 15, 1963, was an eight-page monthly printed on 12 inch...
) and a Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...
from The George Washington University Law School
The George Washington University Law School
The George Washington University Law School, commonly referred to as GW Law, is the law school of The George Washington University. It was founded in 1825 and is the oldest law school in Washington, D.C. The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a charter member of the...
. While in law school, he studied under Professor Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley is an American lawyer, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism...
, where he was on a litigation team challenging Black Bag Operations authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in espionage
Espionage
Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
cases against former CIA agent Harold J. Nicholson and former FBI agent Earl E. Pitts.
Current activities
- Principal at PrivacyClue LLC, a privacy consultancy based in the San Francisco area
- Columnist for JupiterMedia's Datamation.com and eSecurityPlanet.com
- Weekly segment on The David LawrenceDavid Lawrence (radio host)David Harvard Lawrence XVII is an American television and film actor, voice talent, network radio host, Internet entrepreneur, podcaster, demo producer, teacher and author, best known for his role as The Puppetmaster on NBC's sci-fi series Heroes...
Show on satellite radioSatellite radioSatellite radio is an analogue or digital radio signal that is relayed through one or more satellites and thus can be received in a much wider geographical area than terrestrial FM radio stations... - Co-founder and counsel to the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial EmailCAUCECAUCE, or the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, is a non-profit advocacy group that works to reduce the amount of unsolicited commercial email, or spam, via legislation. CAUCE was founded in 1997 by participants in the USENET newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email and the SPAM-L mailing...
(CAUCE) - Member of the National Advisory Council for the George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied ScienceGeorge Washington University School of Engineering and Applied ScienceThe School of Engineering and Applied Science at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. is a technical school which specializes in engineering, technology, communications, and transportation...
(SEAS)