Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.
Dr. Katherine Albrecht is an internationally known privacy researcher, consumer advocate, bestselling author, and nationally syndicated radio host. She is also a senior executive with the private email company StartMail that makes powerful encryption tools available for regular people. Katherine holds a Doctorate in Human Development & Psychology from Harvard University, has studied at the MIT Media lab, and received a Masters from Harvard in Technology, Innovation, and Education.
Katherine has authored pro-consumer legislation, testified before the Federal Trade Commission, provided expert testimony to numerous state legislatures, and was appointed as a consumer technology expert by NH Governor John Lynch. She has advised the European Commission and been invited to speak before advocacy groups, bar associations, and government assemblies around the world.
She co-authored the bestselling book Spychips which exposed corporate plans to misuse RFID technology and brought about much-needed consumer privacy reforms across the retail industry, and she was a plaintiff in a pivotal first amendment case guaranteeing activists the right to free speech in the nation's convention centers (Albrecht v. Metropolitan Pier Exposition Auth.).
Katherine has granted over 2,000 media interviews with news outlets around the globe, including CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR, Fox News, Good Morning America, the BBC, Wired Magazine, The New York Times, and hundreds more. Katherine has written articles for numerous publications, including Scientific American and the Denver Law Review, and she is a former Associate Editor of the IEEE Technology & Society Magazine.
She is the author of a children's Bible book about Revelation titled "I Won't Take the Mark: A Bible Book and Contract for Children."