Evan Hendricks
Privacy and Information Policy

Evan Hendricks is an expert affiliate of TechVision21, recognized globally for his extensive knowledge and expertise on privacy issues.

Since 1977, Mr. Hendricks has written extensively on privacy and freedom of information law, first as Editor of the newsletter Access Reports, and since 1981, as Publisher and Editor of the Privacy Times, a bi-weekly newsletter based in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Hendricks is also the author of two seminal publications, Your Right To Privacy and Former Secrets, a compilation of 500 examples of significant disclosures to the public under the Federal government's Freedom of Information Act.

Mr. Hendricks has provided consulting services to a wide range of organizations that had one thing in common: they wanted to "get privacy right."  These included Fortune 500 companies, emerging companies, Federal and state agencies and professional and trade associations.  For example, since 1998, Mr. Hendricks has served on a three member Panel of Privacy Experts advising the Social Security Administration on a host of issues concerning its operations, including the appropriate balance between privacy, access and disclosure. In 2000, Mr. Hendricks advised the Multi-State Tax Commission regarding privacy principles for the "Streamlined Sales Tax System" then under consideration.

Mr. Hendricks has assisted the Office of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner and the Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission in formulating their national privacy and information policies, drawing from the American experience. Mr. Hendricks also has served as an expert witness in several cases involving the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Hendricks, a native of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Columbia University.

Mr. Hendricks regularly lectures on privacy and information policy issues in the U. S., Canada and Europe.  Some of his recent lectures and expert presentations include Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; the Brookings Institution; the 23rd Annual Conference of Data Protection Commissioners (Paris, France—La Sorbonne University, 2001), the 22d Annual Conference of Data Protection Commissioners (Venice, Italy, 2000); the 16th Annual Conference on Data Protection in The Hague, The Netherlands; and the Reed College Lecture Series on Privacy and Censorship. National media turn to Mr. Hendricks when they need an expert spokesman on FOIA and privacy issues.  He has been interviewed by the Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo, ABC Nightline and World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, CNN News Watch, The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and radio talk shows such as KABC (Ray Briem, Los Angeles), KFI (Tom Likus, Los Angeles), WLS (both Tom Johnson and Bob Wade), Scams Across America (Business Radio Network, Richard Cooper), WOR (New York) and KFYI (Phoenix).