Privacy Expert Witnesses

Privacy expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on privacy. The privacy expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Advertising, Computers, Cybersecurity, Digital Forensics, Information Technology, Internet, and Marketing.

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Ira Victor, G2700, GCFA, GPCI, GSEC-Gold, CGEIT, GRISC

Data Security, Digital Forensics and e-Discovery

Arizona
Computers, Digital Forensics - Computer Forensics, Smartphone Forensics, eDiscovery Reference Model (EDRM), Cybersecurity, Meta Data, Video Forensics, Data Recovery, Hacking, Information Security, Vehicle Electronics, Email, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Center for Internet Security CIS, Cybersecurity, Privacy, eDiscovery
I work with attorneys to interpret digital evidence, and tell a powerful story. My technical expertise saves time and money: pre-discovery communications, forensically-sound data preservation, and reports that pack a punch. Expert analysis for electronic medical records, business espionage, employee misconduct, vehicle computer systems, video surveillance, cybercrime, divorce, probate and more (ask about your case -- initial consultation is free). I have more than two decades in the field. Court appearances in multiple states. A live person always answers the phone. My most frequent practical contributions in litigation consulting are as follows: • Distinguishing useful ESI from non probative data • Overcoming adverse party’s resistance to producing ESI • Producing ESI with confidence it will be admissible • Delivering concise written reports that clarify rather than confuse • Incorporating digital evidence into the legal strategy • Advising methods that ...
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Jonathan E Hochman, PhD

Internet Marketing and Cybersecurity Expert

Hochman Consultants

New London, Connecticut
Internet, Cybersecurity - E-commerce, Ecommerce, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, PPC, Pay Per Click Advertising, Internet Marketing, Web Development, Mobile Apps, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Digital Forensics, Internet Security, Privacy, Wiretapping, Patent, Trademark, Reputation Management, Online Defamation
Jonathan Hochman, PhD serves as consulting and testifying expert for cases related to Internet marketing, e-commerce, website development, digital forensics, search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, privacy, securities fraud in the technology industry, and disputes related to technology startups. Since 2007 he has provided expert witness services to plaintiffs and defendants alike for disputes involving trademarks, patents, trade secrets, copyrights, contracts, defamation and online reputation, unfair competition, conspiracy and fraud. Dr. Hochman has testified in 24 trials and 69 depositions. He has served as an expert in hundreds of cases. His clients have been located in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Israel, Ukraine, and Romania. A Yale University graduate with four degrees in computer science, Dr. Hochman has worked as a sales, marketing and technology consultant for 35 years. After managing several prior businesses, he ...
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Bruce Schneier

World-renowned Cybersecurity Expert

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cybersecurity, Information Technology - Cryptography, internet security, denial-of-service attacks, ransomware, internet-of-things security, privacy, surveillance, supply chain security, 5G security, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, LLMs, adversarial machine learning, election security, spyware, stalkerware, AI security, security compliance
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books – including Rewiring Democracy and A Hacker’s Mind -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His long-running newsletter and blog, “Schneier on Security,” is one of the most popular sources of cybersecurity news on the internet. Schneier is a Fellow and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is also the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. As a partner in the expert-witness consulting firm Computer Science Experts Ltd., Schneier has access to a team of researchers, analysts, software engineers, writ...
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Ira Victor, G2700, GCFA, GPCI, GSEC-Gold, CGEIT, GRISC

Data Security, Digital Forensics and e-Discovery

Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada
Computers, Digital Forensics - Computer Forensics, Smartphone Forensics, eDiscovery Reference Model (EDRM), Cybersecurity, Meta Data, Video Forensics, Data Recovery, Hacking, Information Security, Vehicle Electronics, Email, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Center for Internet Security CIS, Cybersecurity, Privacy, eDiscovery
I work with attorneys to interpret digital evidence, and tell a powerful story. My technical expertise saves time and money: pre-discovery communications, forensically-sound data preservation, and reports that pack a punch. Expert analysis for electronic medical records, business espionage, employee misconduct, vehicle computer systems, video surveillance, cybercrime, divorce, probate and more (ask about your case -- initial consultation is free). I have more than two decades in the field. Court appearances in multiple states. A live person always answers the phone. My most frequent practical contributions in litigation consulting are as follows: • Distinguishing useful ESI from non probative data • Overcoming adverse party’s resistance to producing ESI • Producing ESI with confidence it will be admissible • Delivering concise written reports that clarify rather than confuse • Incorporating digital evidence into the legal strategy • Advising methods that ...
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John R Levine, PhD

Internet Security, E-mail, and Standards Expert

Standcore LLC

Trumansburg, New York
Internet - IETF, ICANN, patent, software copyright, cybersecurity, email, e-mail, internet security, privacy, DNS, domain name system
Dr. Levine is a computer scientist with over 40 years of experience in computer networks, electronic mail, and Internet standards. Since he wrote the best selling "The Internet for Dummies" in the 1990s he has been writing and consulting on those topics. He has been retained as an expert in dozens of cases, and has testified in multiple US Federal courts. His clients have included Google, and Yahoo. - Networks and protocols, e.g., the Internet, TCP/IP - Electronic mail - Domain Name System (DNS) - Software copyright - Software patents - Computer compiler, linker, and loader software He is a member of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN SSAC), which provides expert advice to ICANN on DNS security. He is a long time participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) which creates standards for the Internet. He is the author or co-author of 16 Request For Comments (RFC) documents. These include RFC 9...
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Robert W Palmatier, PhD

Top-Cited Sales and Marketing Expert

University of Washington & SAMS Institute

Oak Harbor, Washington
Marketing, Advertising - survey, brand, sales, trademark, misleading, trade secret, deceptive advertising, commercial best efforts, pharma, technology, retail, cpg, digital advertising, relationships, reasonable best efforts, beverage, eveready, loyalty, privacy, squirt
Robert W. Palmatier is the John C. Narver Endowed Chair in Business Administration and Tenured Professor of Marketing at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. He is the founder and Research Director of the SAMS Institute (Sales and Marketing Strategy Institute), a global organization linking business and academics to generate knowledge in sales and marketing strategy. Professor Palmatier is the past Editor of both the Journal of Marketing (2018–2022) and the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (2015–2018) — consistently ranked among the top four highest-impact marketing journals globally. In those roles, he evaluated and made final publication decisions on thousands of peer-reviewed submissions, giving him unmatched insight into marketing research standards, methodology, and survey design. He has been recognized as the 6th most productive marketing scholar globally based on publications in premier marketing journals (2013–2022), ranked in the top 1% of ...