Ari Schwartz is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT). Schwartz's work focuses on increasing individual control over personal and public information. He promotes privacy protections in the digital age and expanding access to government information via the Internet. He regularly testifies before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on these issues.

Schwartz also leads the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) , anti-spyware software companies, academics, and public interest groups dedicated to defeating spyware. In 2006, Schwartz won the RSA award for Excellence in Public Policy for his work building the ASC and other efforts against spyware. He was also named one of the Top 5 influential IT security thinkers of 2007 by Secure Computing Magazine.

Schwartz currently serves as a member of the U.S. Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.

2009 Publications and Testimony

• Testimony of Ari Schwartz before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Hearing on "Identification Security: Reevaluating the REAL ID Act" July 15, 2009
• Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board Toward A 21st Century Framework for Federal Government Privacy Policy May, 2009

2008 Publications and Testimony

• Testimony of Ari Schwartz before the Senate Judiciary Committee on "Passport Files: Privacy Protection Needed For All Americans" July 10, 2008
• June 18, 2008, Testimony of Ari Schwartz before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on "Protecting Personal Information: Is the Federal Government Doing Enough?"
• Marit Hansen, Ari Schwartz, Alissa Cooper, "Privacy and Identity Management," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 38-45, Mar/Apr, 2008
• March 11, 2008, Testimony of Ari Schwartz [pdf] before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives on The Use of Commercial Information Resellers by Federal Agencies
• January 7, 2008, Federal Computer Week, Focusing on Searchability

2007 Publications and Testimony

• December 11, 2007, Testimony of Ari Schwartz before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on E-Government
• October 3, 2007, C|Net News.com, A Turn in the Antispyware War?
• Ari Schwartz,Chapter 17: Scenario on "Ubiquitous Identity Theft" L. Jean Camp (author). Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes, and Possible Cures. Springer. 2007.
• September 12, 2007, Testimony of Ari Schwartz before the Interstate Commerce, Trade and Tourism Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation regarding Federal Trade Commission Reauthorization. [pdf]
• April 18, 2007, Washington Examiner, "Congressional Research Service ought to be open to public"
• March 15, 2007, Testimony of Ari Schwartz [pdf] and Appendix to Testimony [pdf] before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection on "Combating Spyware: H.R. 964, the Spy Act."
• February 28, 2007, Testimony of Ari Schwartz before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on "Consumer Protection Issues." [pdf]

2006 Publications and Testimony

• Using Open Internet Standards to Provide Greater Access to Government Information in a Post-9/11 World, 2 ISJLP 124 Winter 2006. [pdf]
• March 16, 2006, Testimony before the House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight on "The State of Small Business Security in the Cyber Economy." [pdf]

2005 Publications and Testimony

• Ari Schwartz, Deirdre Mulligan, and Indrani Mondal, Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues 1 ISJLP, Fall 2005.
• August 2005, TRUSTe Advocate, "Defining Spyware."
• July 18, 2005 Written Supplement to Testimony Delivered to the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Department of Homeland Security on Recommended Policies for Use of Private Sector Data
• Ari Schwartz and Paula Bruening, "Multiple Scenarios for Private-Sector Use of RFID," RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy. Edited by Simson Garfinkel and Beth Rosenberg. Addison Wesley. 2005.
• May 11, 2005, Testimony of Ari Schwartz before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Management, Finance, and Accountability on the "Freedom of Information Act"
• May 11, 2005, Testimony of Ari Schwartz [pdf] before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on "Spyware."
• January 26, 2005 Testimony of Ari Schwartz before The House Committee on Energy and Commerce on "Combating Spyware: H.R. 29, the SPY ACT"

2004 Publications and Testimony

• July 29, 2004, Center for American Progress, "Who Owns the Weather?"
• June 21, 2004, Heritage Foundation, "Biometric Technologies: Security, Legal, and Policy Implications"
• April 19, 2004 Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Spyware
• March 2004, TRUSTe Advocate, "Spyware and Privacy"

2003 Publications and Testimony

• Sept. 17, 2003, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection House Committee on Energy and Commerce on "the International Consumer Protection Act of 2003."
• June 11, 2003, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism on "Reauthorization of the Federal Trade Commission."
• May 1, 2003 TRUSTe Advocate "Spam Best Practices"
• April 1, 2003 Privacy Officers Advisor "Research Shows How to Cut Down on Spam"

2002 Publications and Testimony

• Dec. 2, 2002, Federal Computer Week, Privacy made simple for high-tech minds
• November 11, 2002, Federal Times, "Public Demands Online Privacy Standards"
• Sept. 5, 2002, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on "Driver's License Security Issues"
• August 23, 2002, Chicago Tribune, Getting to know all about you: Japanese privacy protests offer lesson for U.S. (Registration Required)
• July 17, 2002, Testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism on "Reauthorization of the Federal Trade Commission."
• July 15, 2002, Federal Computer Week, E-Government Act Essential
• January 11, 2002, The TRUSTe Advocate, P3P Basics

2001 Publications and Testimony

• August 6, 2001, Federal Computer Week, P3P Basics
• July-August 2001, Consumer Action News, "Privacy Now"
• May 14, 2001, Federal Computer Week, Bush Sends Bad Message
• April 16, 2001, Peer to Peer in Practice
• March, 2001, Editor, Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Briefing Book on E-Government
• March 2001, Communications of the ACM, "A larger role in the public policy process for user control"
• March 13, 2001, Testimony before the Federal Trade Commission on "Utilizing Privacy Controls in Data Transfer Technologies."
• March 12, 2001, Federal Computer Week, "Privacy at the Crossroads"
• January 22, 2001, Federal Computer Week, "A Supreme effort"

2000 Publications and Testimony

• December 11, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "An unseemly 60-day rule"
• October 30, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "A law in need of a new look"
• September 11, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Comment: Mirror, mirror on the Web"
• August 21, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Give privacy post some clout"
• July 3, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "When the 'cookie' crumbles"
• May 15, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Public Records: Privacy/access trade-offs"
• April 24, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Making Government Documents Smarter"
• April 12, 2000, Testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee On Government Management, Information and Technology on HR 4049, the Privacy Commission Act.
• April 10, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "A Checklist for Government Digital Signature Projects"
• Computers, Freedom, & Privacy 2000 Conference Paper "Your Place or Mine?: Privacy Concerns and Solutions for Server and Client-Side Storage of Personal Information"
• March 28, 2000, P3P and Privacy: An Update for the Privacy Community
• March 13, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Making the Web Safe"
• January 24, 2000, Federal Computer Week, "Guarding Privacy"