Linda Ackerman is an attorney who works on health information privacy issues. Most recently, she wrote a report titled "Mobile Health and Fitness Applications and Information Privacy" for Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and helped develop the content for the World Privacy Forum's online guide to health information exchanges in California.
She was a principle contributor to the development of the California Attorney General's as yet unpublished guide to medical identity theft. She is currently working on a project with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, developing content for an educational website on electronic health information exchange and privacy. She has also written a number privacy and security policies and data sharing agreements for health information exchanges.