Privacy Seminar Speaker: Julie McEwen, MITRE Corporation

Thursday, February 27, 2014
3:30 - 4:45PM in 3120 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSI)

The next visitor to our privacy honors seminar will be Julie McEwen, who talk on Privacy and the Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are currently being employed for a variety of uses by the government and in private industry, and their use is expected to increase in the future. The use of a technology such as UAS has the potential to impact individuals' privacy. This presentation will provide an overview of basic foundational privacy principles and examine how to apply them to address privacy risk in the use of UAS.

Julie S. McEwen, CISSP, CIPP/G/IT/US, PMP, CIPM, is a Principal Cybersecurity and Privacy Engineer and leads the privacy capability at the Cybersecurity and Privacy Technical Center at The MITRE Corporation.  Prior to joining MITRE, Ms. McEwen managed privacy and cybersecurity programs and advised organizations on privacy and cybersecurity strategy and policy and technology issues while at the U.S. Department of Defense, Deloitte, IIT Research Institute, the Logistics Management Institute, and T. Rowe Price.  With over 25 years of experience in privacy and cybersecurity, U.S. federal agencies and departments that she has supported include the Departments of Defense, Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development as well as the Census Bureau and U.S. House of Representatives.  Ms. McEwen is a contributing author for two books: U.S. Government Privacy: Essential Policies and Practices for Privacy Professionals [International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), 2013], and Information Privacy in the Evolving Healthcare Environment  [Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), 2013]. She has served as one of the lead faculty for the IAPP’s U.S. Government Privacy Training Program since 2006. She has a BA in psychology from Michigan State University and a master’s degree in management from the University of Maryland. 

As always, any student in the Honors College who has an interest in meeting our seminar speakers is welcome to attend class as our guest. Details on the course are at http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo/239R/

Prof. Jim Purtilo   (purtilo@cs.umd.edu)