Ms. Mari J. Frank, Esq. serves as an attorney- mediator on privacy and other civil matters, and provides testimony as a privacy expert witness for state and federal court cases and governmental hearings. She is the author of several books including the Identity Theft Survival Kit, Identity Theft Prevention and Survival; From Victim to Victor: A Step by Step Guide for Ending the Nightmare of Identity Theft; Safeguard Your Identity: Protect Yourself with a Personal Privacy Audit and the Complete Idiot’s Guide To Recovering From Identity Theft. Since 2005 Mari has hosted the radio show Privacy Piracy on 88.9 FM in Irvine, California. This award winning show (Privacy Innovation Award in 2005 and BE REAL BROADCASTING AWARD in 2011) airs on Monday mornings at 8:00 AM, streams on kuci.org and podcasts on ITunes. (www.kuci.org/privacypiracy).
Ms. Frank consults with businesses and government agencies and provides professional training programs on privacy, conflict resolution, and identity theft issues. She is on the Board of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and had served for many years on the Advisory Board of California's Office of Privacy Protection, the Identity Theft Task Force of the L.A. County District Attorney, California's Department of Motor Vehicles Task Force on Privacy, and the Consumer Federation of America ID Task force on identity theft services. Ms. Frank is an Orange County, California Sheriff's Reserve since 2000, she’s a certified trainer for the State Bar of California, a law professor, and she teaches conflict management at the University of California, Irvine and Brandman University. In 2012 the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario designated Mari a Privacy By Design Ambassador. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and serves as the Privacy Chair of the Executive Committee of the State Bar of California Law Practice Management and Technology Section. In August 2013, she was the editor of the State Bar of California “Bottom Line Journal entitled “Privacy at Risk”.
Ms. Frank has testified many times on privacy and identity theft issues in the California legislature and in the US Congress. In May 1999, she was summoned to the White House to a press conference with President Clinton to speak on Consumer Privacy. Her speech was broadcast on C-SPAN TV. Mari’s 90 minute PBS Television special, “Identity Theft: Protecting Yourself in the Information Age,” aired nationwide. Two of her books and the DVD of the show were featured gifts for viewers who pledged support for local PBS stations across the country. Mari was honored in 2012 by Money Magazine as one of its “Money Heroes.”
Mari has appeared on dozens of national TV programs including Dateline, 48 Hours, the O'Reilly Factor, Investigative Reports, NBC and ABC Nightly News, CNN, Geraldo, CNBC, Montel, the Hugh Thompson Show, Lifetime, Crime Stoppers and many other shows. She has been interviewed on more than 300 radio shows and featured or quoted myriad times in major national newspapers and magazines including: US News and World Report, Your Money Magazine, Money, Parade Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, USA Today, PC Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Good Housekeeping; The California Bar Journal, The American Bar Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, Modern Physician, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many more national publications. Her many articles have been published in legal journals and numerous magazines.