Pam Dixon

Pam Dixon (www.pamdixon.com) is the founder and executive of the World Privacy Forum, a US-based public interest research group well-known and respected for its consumer privacy research. (www.worldprivacyforum.org) An author and a researcher, Dixon has written eight books and numerous groundbreaking and influential studies in the area of privacy, including The Scoring of America, a substantive report on predictive analytics, big data, and privacy. She has also written widely cited reports on health privacy, including the first major Medical Identity Theft report to be published as well as the Patient’s Guide to HIPAA and others.

Dixon has testified before the US Congress, the US Federal Trade Commission, the FDA, and other agencies on prominent consumer privacy issues, including issues related to data brokers, big data, health privacy, financial privacy and credit scoring, genetic privacy, the Common Rule, facial recognition, and online and offline privacy. Dixon is an expert advisor to the OECD as part of an advisory group on health data privacy. She was appointed by the California Secretary of State as co-chair of the California Privacy and Security Advisory Board, where she served for two years. 

Dixon was formerly a research fellow with the Privacy Foundation at Denver University's Sturm School of Law. She has written 8 books, including titles for Random House / Times Books, among other major publishers. Her most recent book, Online Privacy, co-authored with frequent collaborator Bob Gellman, was published by ABC-CLIO books. Forthcoming in Winter 2015 is a reference volume she edited on surveillance, to be published by ABC-CLIO books in hardcover and digital formats.